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Kajal Ahmad (born 1967) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and journalist, known for the show Dijebaw on Kurdsat. She started writing poetry in 1987.

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Ahmad was born in Kirkuk in 1967 of Kurdish ancestry. She began writing poetry in 1986, and publishing it at the age of 21.  Her poems, are known for being "fierce" and "sensual", and have gained a reputation for "brave, poignant and challenging work throughout the Kurdish-speaking world." They have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkis...

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Kajal Ahmad

Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer, painter, and political activist, known for her novel Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London about political repression, violence and exile. She has written both novels and short stories as well as nonfiction, mainly about current political events relating to Iraq, Palestine or Tunisia.

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Haifa Zangana was born in Baghdad to a Kurdish father from the northern city of Kirkuk and an Arabic mother from Karbala. H...

Haifa Zangana

Golan Haji, (Arabic: جولان حاجي) a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator, who was born in 1977. He has published three poetry collections including the "Dark Club", which won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition in 2006. He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.

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Golan Haji, a poet and writer, was born in Amouda which is a Kurdish town...

Salim Barakat (Arabic: سليم بركات, Kurdish: Selîm Berekat) (born   1 September 1951 in Qamishli) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in Arabic and has published numerous novels, poetry collections, biographies and children's books, some of which have been translated into English, French, German, Swedish and other languages.

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Barakat was brought up in the city of Qamishli in an area in northern Syria with...

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