Biography

Zakia Ismail Haqi Mirza Ismail, also known as Zakia Faily, was born in 1939 in Baghdad to a Kurdish businessman family. He attended primary, secondary and high school in Baghdad, then entered the College of Law in 1957 He received a degree in law from Baghdad University with honors. In 1966, he received a degree in business administration from a Swiss university. In 1972, he received a master's degree in law from Baghdad University with honors from an American university He holds a doctorate in law. Before the coup d'etat of July 14, 1958, he was appointed as a judge in the Baghdad Executive Office for one month. On June 6, 1962, he was dismissed for political activities and Kurdishness He was released from prison in 1964 and worked as a lawyer. On Saturday, June 19, 1971, he visited Erbil to take over the orphanage building.

On April 28, 1974, after the seizure of his house by the Iraqi government, his family was deported to the liberated areas. In 1974, he was a member of the supervisory committee of the refugee camp in the Kingdom of Iran Nskoy The September Revolution He was a refugee from the Kingdom of Iran and later returned to Iraq. After the Kurdistan uprising in 1991, he moved to the liberated areas. In 1993, he moved to the United States He died in hospitals in the United States after a long struggle with illness. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English and Persian.

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Zakia Ismail joined the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1951. On December 11, 1952, she was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Women's Union. In 1953, she became the secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1958, she visited Zaim Abdulkarim Qasim (1914-1963) at his headquarters in Baghdad as the head of the Kurdistan Women's Union delegation. In 1959, she was a member of the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party In order to welcome the President Mustafa BarzaniHe visited Baghdad from the Soviet Union in 1903-1979. On December 16, 1959, he was elected a member of the general board of the Kurdish Victory Club in Baghdad 1959 Participated in the Newroz celebration in Khanaqin township organized by the United Kurdistan Democratic Party Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  - In 1959, he was a member of the High Monitoring and Inspection Committee in Baghdad Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq was the fourth congress. In the summer of 1959, a meeting of the Kurdistan Women's Union was held in her house in order to prepare for receiving official permission from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior 5th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1960, she was one of the organizers of the joint excursion of the Kurdistan Women's Union and the Kurdistan Students Union to Mount Azmar in Sulaimani province.

In 1963, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) delegation to negotiate with the Iraqi government. On June 8, 1963, he was arrested along with his children and wife by the General Security Agency in Baghdad She was released from prison in 1964. In the same year, she supervised the secret organizations of the Kurdistan Women's Union Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic PartyIn 1970, she was appointed as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party On September 25, 1970, she was elected secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union (KWU) at its first congress. On July 17, 1970, she participated in the demonstration on behalf of the Kurdistan Women's Union to mark the second anniversary of the victory of the Ba'athist Arab Socialist Party in Baghdad He was appointed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) High Committee for the General Census as a member of the Information and Warning Committee for the Iraqi General Census so that the authorities do not deceive people by writing them as non-Kurdish.

On April 18, 1971, she was re-elected as the president of the Kurdistan Women's Union for the second time. On April 25, 1971, she was elected as the vice president of the Kurdistan Women's Union In late April 1971, she attended the Seventh Congress of Arab Women in Tunisia. In April 1971, she met with Ludmila Balakhovskaya, Secretary of the Soviet Women's Committee On May 3, 1971, she was elected as the president of the Kurdistan Women's Union at the meeting of the Executive Committee He attended the seventh congress of the Kurdistan Students Union on Sunday, June 20, 1971 at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in Baghdad Yadullah Faily He received a delegation from the Soviet Youth Union.

On Tuesday, June 22, 1971, she received Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), also known as Saddam Tikrit, the vice president of Iraq, at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Women's Union in Baghdad On Friday, April 28, 1972, she accompanied foreign delegations to the third congress of the Kurdistan Women's Union (KWU) at the headquarters of the leadership of the September Revolution in Haji Omeran He met with the President in Erbil province Mustafa Barzani On April 29, 1972, she was elected secretary of the Kurdistan Women's Union for the third time.

He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in 1974. On Saturday, July 15, 2000, on the occasion of the death of his wife, Engineer Yasin Mohammed Karimi, who founded him in 1960 as a member of the 50-member support committee Kurdistan Democratic Party On Wednesday, July 17, 2000, a letter of condolence was sent by the President Massoud BarzaniIn 2003, after the fall of the Ba'ath regime, he was appointed as a legal advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice. On December 15, 2005, he was elected as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly on the list of the United Iraqi Coalition العراقي الموحد) has been selected. 

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