Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani

male, 76 years old
Muslim, Hashemite, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Interim Iraq Governing Council, Iraqi National Assembly, Kurdistan Democratic Party…Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq, IraqiKurdistan, iraqi
Jalal Talabani (born 1933), is an Iraqi politician, who was elected State President of Iraq on April 6, 2005, (sworn in the next day, April 7, and...
Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani

male, 63 years old
Arbil, Diyarbakır, Kirkuk, Erbil, ankara, iraqi governing council…Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurdistan Democratic Party, IraqiKurdistan, iraqi
Massoud Barzani (born August 16, 1946) is the President of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party....
Hoshyar Zebari

Hoshyar Zebari

male, 56 years old
iraqi, first permanent government, Government of Iraq, 2006-2010, Iraqi Interim Government, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Iraqi Transitional Government…IraqiKurdistan, iraqi governing council
Hoshyar Zebari (born 1953) is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari...

Michael Totten

male
IraqiKurdistan, Arbil, Erbil, journalist, LA WEEKLY, September 11, 2001 attacks
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and...

Farhad Pirbal

male
iraqi, from Arbil, culture, cultural, University of Sorbonne, Kurdish language…IraqiKurdistan
Farhad Pirbal, is a Kurdish writer and academic. He was born in Hewlêr(Arbil) in Iraq. He studied Kurdish language and literature in the U...
Hiner Saleem

Hiner Saleem

male, 55 years old
kurdish, film director, French, kurds, English, First Gulf War…IraqiKurdistan, Vive la marie et la liberation du Kurdistan
Hiner Saleem or Hiner Salim, (1954-), is a Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of...
Idris Barzani

Idris Barzani

male, deceased (1987)
myocardial infarction, pdk, kurdish, politician, heart attack, IraqiKurdistan…Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
Idris Barzani (? - January 31 1987) was a Kurdish politician in Iraq. He was the son of the PDK-founder Mustafa Barzani and the father of Nechervan...
Nazand Begikhani

Nazand Begikhani

female, 45 years old
poet, Kurdish Institute of Paris, T.S. Eliot, Poetry Magazine, comparative literature, IraqiKurdistan
Nazand Begikhani,(born 1964), is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. Nazand Begikhani was born in Koya in Iraqi Kurdistan and has...
Ibrahim Ahmad

Ibrahim Ahmad

male, deceased (2000)
University of Baghdad, Sulaimaniya, secretary general, kurdish, Kurdish language, IraqiKurdistan…Kurdistan Democratic Party
Ibrahim Ahmad, Ibrahim Ahmed or Ibrahîm Ehmed, was a Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan and s...
Qazi Muhammad

Qazi Muhammad

male, deceased (1947)
persian, kurdish, nationalist, soviet, ussr, middle east…kurdistan, IraqiKurdistan, Republic of Kurdistan
Qazi Muhammad (1893 - March 30, 1947) was a nationalist and religious Kurdish leader and the Head of the Republic of Kurdistan, (Republic of...