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Who Is Dilshad Meriwani? Dilshad Meriwani was a Kurdish Iraqi singer born in 1947 in the Meriwan area of Iraqi Kurdistan who became one of the most beloved Kurdish musical voices of his generation before being killed in 1989 during the Anfal genocide — the Ba'athist campaign of mass murder against the Kurdish people that killed between 50,000 and 180,000 Kurds. His death at age 42 during the Anfal — which destroyed hundreds of Kurdish villages and killed tens of thousands — made him one...

Who Is Rowsch Shaways? Rowsch Shaways was a Kurdish Iraqi politician born in 1947 who served as Vice President of Iraq and as Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region — one of the most senior Kurdish statesmen of his generation. He was a senior figure in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and served in multiple high-level positions that bridged the Kurdish regional government and the Iraqi federal government. His career spanned the armed struggle against Saddam Hussein, the liberation...

Who Is Nadhim Zahawi? Nadhim Zahawi is a Kurdish Iraqi-born British politician born in 1967 in Baghdad to a Kurdish family who fled Iraq when Zahawi was nine years old, settling in the United Kingdom. He became a Conservative Party MP, co-founded the polling company YouGov, and rose to some of the most senior positions in the UK government — serving as Minister for COVID Vaccines (overseeing one of the most successful vaccination programmes in the world), Secretary of State for Education,...