Ibrahim Ahmed

Ibrahim Ahmed or Ibrahîm Ehmed , (* 1914 in Silemani , Ottoman Empire , † April 8, 2000 in Surrey , United Kingdom ), was a Kurdish author , writer , politician and translator . He studied law at the University of Baghdad and graduated in 1937. From 1942 to 1944 he was a judge in Erbil and Halabdscha . In 1939 he founded the Kurdish-language magazine Gelawêj (The Morning Star = Venus ) with Alaaddin Sajadi . Ahmed was the publisher and editor-in-chief. Gelawêj was published until 1949.

Political career

During this time he was also politically active, so that in 1944 he became chairman of the Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd in the Silemani region and later of all of Kurdish Iraq . When the Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd changed its name to the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1945 , Ahmed became the party's secretary in Iraqi Kurdistan. He brought out the magazine Dengî Rastî ( The Voice of Truth ) as a party paper . In 1947 Ahmed became a member of the Kurdish Democratic Party led by Mustafa Barzani . In 1949 Ahmed was sentenced to two years in Baghdad and two years in Kirkuk . From 1949 to 1956 Ahmed was editor-in-chief of the KDP magazine Rizgarî ( Liberation ), which was later renamed Xebat ( Struggle ). In 1956 Ibrahim Ahmed even became general secretary of the KDP. However, in 1964 there were tensions within the KDP Politburo. On one side stood Mustafa Barzani's followers and on the other those around Ibrahim Ahmed and Jalal Talabani . Barzani appointed a new politburo and the people around Ibrahim Ahmed split off from the KDP and founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Europe in 1975 . After 1975 Ahmed lived in England as a political refugee . His daughter Herro Khan is the wife of Jalal Talabani.

Literary work

Ibrahim Ahmed started writing in 1933. His most important work, Janî Gel ( The Suffering of the People ), was published in 1956 and dealt with the Algerian war of independence against France. In this novel he compared the situation of the Algerians with that of the Kurds. The work was translated into Persian in 1980 and into French and Turkish in 1994 .

Works

Short stories

Yadgarî Lawan (Memories of Youth), collection of poems and stories, Baghdad 1933.

Kwêrewerî (Misery), collection of stories, Baghdad, 1959.

Bawik û Kur (father and son), short story, published in the magazine Çirîkey Kurdistan , England, 1979.

Pirsey Şehîd (The Martyr's Wakefulness ), short story, published in the magazine Çirîkey Kurdistan , England, 1980.

Novels

Janî Gel (The Suffering of the People), 1956, Iraq.
Dirk û Gul (The Thorn and the Flower), 1991. (written 1961)
Awat û Nahumêdî (Expectations and Disappointments), written in 1933, unpublished.
Herzekarî û Hejarî (The negligence and the poverty), written 1972, unpublished.
Jiyan û Xebat (Life and Struggle), written in 1961, unpublished.

items

Ibrahim Ahmad, The Republic of Kurdistan: A Personal Memoir , in International Journal of Kurdish Studies , Vol. 11, Nos.1-2, 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ahmed, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kurdish author, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Silemani , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 2000
Place of death	Surrey , UK