Teacher and Politician Nahida Salam Ahmad, known as Teacher Nahida Sheikh Salam, Kurdish girl, N. S and mother of Roj, in the year 1960 at the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which was held in the city of Baghdad, she was a candidate of President Mustafa Barzani for the position of member of the Central Committee and as a result, she was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and is the first woman to become a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Nahida Salam Ahmad was born in the year 1922 in the city of Sulaymaniyah and is the daughter of the patriotic poet Sheikh Salam (1892-1959). In the year 1930 she completed her primary education in the town of Chamchamal. In the year 1941 she completed the Primary Teachers' Institute in Baghdad and was appointed as a primary teacher, in the year 1946 she married the engineer Nuri Sadiq Ali (1922-1983) known as Nuri Shaways, she is the mother of Dr. Roj Nuri Shaways, member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Brusk Nuri Sadiq Shaways , member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, she wrote in Kurdish newspapers and magazines under the pseudonyms Kurdish girl, N. S and mother of Roj, she passed away on 28 of November 2006 in the city of Erbil and was buried in the Saywan Hill cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah next to her father Sheikh Salam. She knew both the Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record

Nahida Salam in the year 1939 joined the ranks of the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan and in the year 1944 at the beginning of her political activity she joined the ranks of the Rast Party and in the same year she was a member of the Kurdistan Resurrection Association (JK) and in the year 1945 she became a member of the Kurdistan Rizgari Party, in the year 1946 she joined the ranks of the  Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the year 1959 she was the head of the Kurdistan Women's Union delegation to visit Leader Abdul Karim Qasim (1914-1963) and was wounded in an assassination attempt, in the year 1959 as a representative of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party she participated in the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq and in the year 1960 at the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which was held in the city of Baghdad, she was a candidate of President Mustafa Barzani for the position of member of the Central Committee and as a result, she was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and is the first woman to become a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the year 1964 she did not participate in the Mawati broad meeting which was organized by the Political Bureau wing of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in which a decision was made against President Mustafa Barzani .

In the year 1974 she was expelled by the Ba'ath Party authorities after her house was looted towards the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution and for the years (1974-1975) she headed to the country of Iran as a refugee, in the year 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution she returned to Southern Kurdistan, on 28 of November 2006 she passed away in the city of Erbil and was buried in the Saywan Hill cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah next to her father Sheikh Salam.

Among her works:

  1. What I Remember, 1999.
Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Najat Rafiq Hilmi, Behind Every Great Woman is a Great Man, Gulan Magazine, Gulan Media Institution, Issue 33, Third Year, Erbil, Ministry of Culture Press, 25 February 1999 AD.
  3. Mahdi Muhammad Qadir, Political Developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945 - 1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Center for Strategic Studies - 2005 AD).
  4. Abdul Fattah Ali al-Butani, Studies and Researches in the History of the Kurds and Contemporary Iraq, (Erbil - Dar Spirez for Printing and Publishing - Haji Hashim Press - 2007 AD).
  5. Jamal Baban, Sulaymaniyah My Radiant City, Volume Three, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Aras Press - 2012 AD).
  6. Tara Muhammad, Nahida Sheikh Salam among the Famous Women of Kurdistan, Khabat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 2552, Erbil, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 AD.
  7. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (In Key Milestones) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998 AD).
  8. Darakhshan Sheikh Jalal Hafidzad, A Brief on the Kurdish Women's Liberation Movement and Some of My Memories, (Sulaymaniyah - Shvan Press - 2010 AD).
  9. Mahdi Muhammad Qadir, The Role of Kurds in the Peace Movement in Iraq (1950 - 1963), (Erbil - Mukriani House for Printing and Publishing - Mukriani Press - 2015 AD).
  10. Nahida Sheikh Salam, What I Remember, Prepared by Chiman Salih, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 1999 AD).