The Kurdish Writers’ Union is a prominent professional organization that has played a vital and brilliant role in serving Kurdish literary and intellectual heritage, consistently standing with the people and defending the national rights of Kurdistan. Founded on February 10, 1970, after receiving its official license from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior through the efforts of its founding committee—including Dr. Ezzadin Mustafa Rasul, Dr. Nasreen Fakhri, Dr. Kawus Qaftan, Dr. Ihsan Fuad, Dr. Marf Khaznadar, Jamal Baban, Khalid Diler, Muhammad Mala Karim, Hussein Arif, Kakemem Botani, and Nouri Ali Amin. The union became a cornerstone of cultural activism. Despite being a city-based professional body, it remained a militant organization aligned with the revolution, leading many of its members to face imprisonment and exile, with some eventually sacrificing their lives for the freedom of Kurdistan. Viewed as a defiant entity, the union was dissolved by the Ba’ath regime in 1980 and forcibly merged into the general Union of Iraqi Writers; however, its members continued their struggle clandestinely, publishing revolutionary works under pseudonyms from the mountains. Following the 1991 Uprising (Raperin), the union was re-established and continues its dedicated literary and intellectual mission to this day.

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