Heyder Mihemed Emîn was born in the city of Erbil in 1927. In 1946, he took the final stage examination of high school while in prison. In 1948, he was accepted into the English Department of the College of Education in Baghdad and in 1953, he received his bachelor's degree in the English Language Department from the College of Education in Baghdad. In 1953, due to his Kurdish nationalist struggle, he was denied the right to be employed and worked in a private company in Baghdad to support himself. In 1957, he was appointed as a teacher at the Hilla middle school. In 1958, after the overthrow of the Monarchy regime of Iraq, he returned to the Erbil Education Directorate and worked as a teacher. In 1958, he became an English language teacher at the Erbil Primary Teachers' Institute.
He passed away on 16 January 1960 due to heart failure in the city of Erbil. On 22 January 1960, the newspaper Xebat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, published the news of his passing. The secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union expressed their condolences to his family. He knew the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.
Work HistoryIn 1942, he participated in the demonstration in front of the Erbil Governorate building for the release of lawyer Ewnî Yusif Ehmed (1908 - 1988), and Doctor Ce'fer Mihemed Kerîm (1910 - 2000) who was known as Doctor Ce'fer Feylî, and Hesen Teha Ebdulezîz (1915 - 1999) who was known as Hesen Ketanî, who had been arrested by the governor of Erbil due to their Kurdish nationalist struggle. In 1946, he joined the ranks of the Party. In 1948, he was arrested and took the final stage examination of high school while in prison and was successful. In 1948, he was a delegate to the congress of the General Union of Iraqi Students (Lion's Congress).
In 1948, he was a member of the leadership of the General Union of Iraqi Students (Lion's Congress). In 1949, he was arrested due to political activities. In 1953, he was among the founders of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was a member of the Preparatory Committee of the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was elected as a member of the Executive Board in the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union and, after a short time, was appointed as the secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was among the founders and members of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1959, he was made the person in charge of the Erbil Regional Committee affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In 1959, he was a member of the Preparatory Board of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. In 1959, he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in the city of Baghdad. On 10 January 1959, as a delegate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq at the headquarters of the Xebat newspaper in the city of Erbil, he read a speech to the public on the occasion of the recovery and discharge from the hospital of Zaim Rukin Ebdulkerîm Qasim (1914 - 1963) who had been wounded in a terrorist attempt by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. On 15 - 17 August 1960, he was the delegate of Erbil Governorate to the second congress of the Kurdish Teachers' Union (Second Congress of Shaqlawa). In 1960, he was elected by the congress delegates as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Fifth Congress). In 1960, he was the secretary of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union.
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