Houzan Mahmoud is a Kurdish feminist, writer, public lecturer and anti-war activist. She is the co-founder of Culture Project, an online and print magazine that gives a platform to Kurdish voices. She has written for the Guardian, openDemocracy, Independent and New Statesman.
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Houzan Mahmoud
1. For the Execution of My Son, I Did Not Cry; There was Smoke Coming from
My Soul - Told by Mother Sabria and written by Amira Mohammed
2. The Last Cigarette Butt Before Execution - Told by Nazanin Hasan and
written by Amira Mohammed
3. A Stolen Childhood - Bayan Saeed
4. Run Away: A Vision from a Woman's Perspective - Bayan Salman
5. There is a Sorrow in my Heart that I Cannot Console - Susan Shahab
6. The Prison Speakers Played Islamic Verses - Kobra Banehi
7. Breaking the Bars of Home and Becoming a Peshmerga - Farah Shareefi
8. Fighting an Islamic Regime - Nasrin Ramazanali
9. Fuchsia Flower of My Brother (Nasiri Khoshkalam) - Nahiya Khoshkalam
10. The Explorer Who Watched from a School Window - Bayan Nassih
11. The Lost Photos of Engagement - Shahla Yarhussein
12. My Story - Diba Alikhani
13. At the Red Prison, They Want Workers - Rozhgaar Mustafa
14. On Art, Womanhood, Being the 'Other' - Avan Omar
15. In Search of Kurdishness: Our History, My Life - Simal (Anonymous)
16. "To Be Ruken or not to Be Buket?" - Ruken Isik
17. Life is an Ongoing Struggle - Khanda Rashid Murad
18. A Woman of the Homeland of Rojava - Nafia Aysi Hasso
19. A Handful of Blood - Khanda Hameed
20. Except for Poetry, Nothing Else Shields Me - Hero Kurda
21. Once Upon a Time in Rojava - Deejila Haydar
22. A Day at Tel-Rafiat - Seveen Jimo
23. This is the Story of My Life - Lanja Khawe
24. I Struggle for Two Types of Liberation: Gender and Human Liberation -
Dashne Nariman
25. What Motivated me to Write? - Zhala Hussein
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