the biography

The judge Zakia Ismail Haqqi Mirza Ismail, known as Zakia al-Fayli, was born in Baghdad in 1939 to a Kurdish Fayli merchant family. She completed her primary, intermediate, and secondary education in Baghdad. In 1957, she graduated with honors from the Law Department of the University of Baghdad. In 1966, she obtained a degree in Business Administration from a Swiss university. In 1972, she earned a Master's degree in Law from the University of Baghdad with honors. She later obtained a PhD in Law from an American university. One month before the July 14, 1958 coup, she was appointed as a judge in the Baghdad Execution Department. On June 6, 1962, she was dismissed from her position due to her political and Kurdish activities and was banned from practicing law. In 1964, she was released from prison and resumed her work as a lawyer. On Saturday, June 19, 1971, she visited Erbil to take possession of the Erbil Orphanage building.

On April 28, 1974, her family was expelled to the liberated areas after their home was seized by the Iraqi government. In 1974, she was a member of the supervisory committee for the displaced persons' camp in the Kingdom of Iran. In 1975, after the setback... September Revolution She sought refuge in the Kingdom of Iran and later returned to Iraq. After the uprising in southern Kurdistan in 1991, she went to the liberated areas. In 1973, she went to the United States of America.

On Monday, August 23, 2021, she passed away in a hospital in the United States of America after a long struggle with illness. She was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

pages of struggle

Zakia Ismail joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1951. On December 11, 1952, she founded the Kurdistan Women's Union. In 1953, she became the secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union. She was accepted as a member of the KDP-Iraq in 1954. In 1958, as head of a delegation from the Kurdistan Women's Union, she visited leader Abdul Karim Qasim (1914-1963) at his private residence in Baghdad. In 1959, she visited the leader... Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) In Baghdad to welcome him upon his return from the Soviet Union when she was a member of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On January 16, 1959, she won membership in the General Assembly of the Victory Club for Kurds in Baghdad in the club's elections. On March 21, 1959, she participated in the Nowruz celebrations in Khanaqin district, which were held by the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United. In 1959, she was a delegate to the Fourth Conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in Baghdad. In 1959, she was a member of the Supreme Committee for Monitoring and Inspection of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (Fourth Conference). In 1959, she participated in a delegation from the Kurdistan Women's Union to visit leader Abdul Karim Qasim, who had been wounded in a terrorist attack. In the summer of 1959, a meeting of the Kurdistan Women's Union was held at her home to prepare for obtaining official authorization from the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior. In 1960, she was on the organizing committee for a joint trip by the Kurdistan Women's Union and the Kurdistan Students' Union to Mount Azmar in Sulaimaniyah Governorate. Also in 1960, she participated in an orientation event for Kurdish students at the College of Education, University of Baghdad. In 1963, she participated as a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation in negotiations with the Iraqi government. On June 8, 1963, she was imprisoned, along with her husband and children, by the General Security Directorate at the Al-Fadl police station in Baghdad and subsequently transferred to the Central Prison. She was released from prison in 1964, and in the same year, she oversaw the secret organizations of the Kurdistan Women's Union. In 1970, she delivered the Kurdistan Women's Union's address at [the event/event]. The Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1970, she was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the delegates of the Eighth Congress. She is considered the second woman whose party progression reaches the level of a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On September 25, 1970, she was elected by the members of the First Congress as Secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union. On July 17, 1970, she participated in Baghdad on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the demonstrations of the second year of the victory of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and its assumption of power. On August 15, 1970, she published an article in Arabic in the Al-Ta'akhi newspaper. In mid-1970, she was appointed as a member of the Information and Awareness Committee for the General Census in Iraq by the Supreme Committee for the General Census in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. The aim of this was to monitor the authorities in case they deceived people and did not register them as Kurdish citizens. On April 18, 1971, she was elected for the second time as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union by the delegates of the Second Conference. On April 15, 1971, she was chosen as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union and Vice President of the General Union of Iraqi Women. At the end of April 1971, she participated in the Seventh Conference of the Arab Women's Union in the Republic of Tunisia. In April 1971, she met with the Secretary of the Soviet Women's Committee, Lyudmila Balakhovskaya, and they discussed bilateral relations and joint cooperation. On May 3, 1971, she was elected President of the Women's Union at the meeting of the Supreme Administrative Body. On Sunday, May 30, 1971, in the presence of Habib Al-Faily (1931-2013), she received a delegation from the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Baghdad. She participated on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the opening of the Seventh Conference of the Kurdistan Students' Union. On Sunday, June 20, 1971, at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in Baghdad, in the presence of Yadallah Al-Faily, she received a delegation from the Soviet Youth Union.

On Tuesday, June 22, 1971, she received Saddam Hussein (1937-2003), also known as Saddam al-Tikriti, the Vice President of Iraq, at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Women's Union in Baghdad. On August 16, 1971, she participated in the Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary) celebration of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the headquarters of the Fifth Branch Committee in Baghdad. On February 2, 1971, as Secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union, she participated in the opening ceremony of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in Erbil and delivered a speech on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union. From February 12-20, 1972, she participated on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdish Students' Association in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and delivered a speech. On March 8, 1972, her speech on the occasion of International Women's Day was broadcast on Radio Prague.

On Friday, April 28, 1972, she met with Mustafa Barzani, along with foreign delegations attending the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Women's Union, at the Haji Omran headquarters in Erbil. On April 29, 1972, she was elected for the third time as Secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union by the delegates of the Third Congress. On Saturday, April 22, 1972, she oversaw the convening of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Women's Union in Baghdad. In 1972, she expressed her support for the nationalization of Iraqi oil. On July 29, 1972, she participated on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the Second World Conference of Women in Baghdad. On July 8, 1972, as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union, she participated in the opening ceremony of the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in Shaqlawa, Erbil Governorate.

On November 11-14, 1972, as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union, she participated in the Oil as a Weapon seminar organized by the National Council for Peace and Solidarity in Baghdad. On Monday, February 5, 1973, as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union, she delivered a speech at the Fourth Conference of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in Erbil. On Tuesday, March 27, 1973, she participated in the opening of the Fifth Conference of the General Union of Iraqi Women in Baghdad and delivered a speech on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union. On Wednesday, March 28, 1973, she was elected First Deputy by the delegates of the Fifth Conference of the General Union of Iraqi Women. On June 9, 1973, as President of the Kurdistan Women's Union, she delivered a speech on the anniversary of the Kurdish martyr at the headquarters of the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. On October 31, 1973, she was a delegate to the Conference of Peace and Solidarity Forces in Moscow and a member of the Committee on Social Problems and Human Rights.

In 1974, she joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga. On Saturday, July 15, 2000, on the occasion of the death of her husband, Engineer Yassin Mohammed Karim, who in 1960 was a member of the 50-person committee that supported the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, President Masoud Barzani sent her a letter of condolence. In 2003, during the era of the fall of Saddam Hussein (1937-2003), also known as Saddam al-Tikriti, she was appointed as a legal advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and began her duties. On December 15, 2005, she was elected as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly on the United Iraqi Alliance list.

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