Muhammad Faraj Shawais was born in 1963 in the village of Nawe in the Khurmal sub-district, Halabja province. He was a villager and had completed primary school. In 1979, he was displaced by the Ba'ath regime and forcibly settled in the Sayidsadiq district, where he became the owner of a candy shop in the Sayidsadiq market.

In October 1979, he became a Peshmerga in the Martyr Abu Bakr Bani Banoki Battalion, which was part of the Surin Force of the Darbandikhan Regional Committee of the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . 

He participated in the Battle of Qajir, the Battle of Shaneri, the Battle of Ahmadawa, the Battle of Razla, the Battle of the Bani Shiran outpost at the foot of Surin Mountain, the Battle of Sharam Mountain, partisan activities in the Sharazur plain, and partisan activities in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was one of the Peshmerga who participated in the partisan activities in the city of Sulaymaniyah and, through several activities, burned down all the headquarters of the Popular Army inside Sulaymaniyah. 

Muhammad Faraj Shawais was wounded three times during his Peshmerga life. In 1982, in the village of Bani Banoki, during an attack to recapture the Ba'ath regime's positions at the foot of Surin Mountain, he was hit by a bullet and wounded. In August 1983, along with a group of comrades in the village of Nawe at the foot of Surin Mountain, they fell into an ambush by the Ba'ath regime's Jash and was wounded in the thigh by a bullet. In 1984, near the village of Bardabal, along with three comrades, after a partisan activity that involved burning several Ba'ath military trucks, they took shelter in a cave at the foot of Surin Mountain until the Situation normalized, but the Ba'ath regime's artillery shelled the cave and the cave collapsed on them. As a result, Muhammad Faraj Shawais was wounded and a comrade named Hamasaeed Jomaresi was martyred. 

In Year 1985, he attained the Member Level of the Darbandikhan Regional Committee of the Fourth Branch. On October 20, 1986, Muhammad Faraj Shawais and a group of comrades intended to go to the Sharazur plain for an activity, but near the outposts of the village of Dara Surani behind the village of Ahmadawa, they fell into a military ambush by the Ba'ath regime. Muhammad Faraj Shawais was martyred and Anwar Haji Osman was severely wounded. 

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Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board