The Daughter Of Kurdland by Widad Akreyi

Despite incredible hardships she earned a Master’s degree in genetics and a PhD in global health and epidemiology and has been awarded several prestigious awards. Her quest for peace, freedom and knowledge transformed her, making her a human rights champion and politician, taking her to a new continent, where she survived a cardiac arrest at the age of 26. She disobeyed authority, volunteered and documented the Anfal Genocide. Her reluctance to bow to pressure placed her on the blacklist of unwanted Kurds who later were to be slaughtered in a genocide called Anfal that took place in the late 1980s. Widad Akreyi takes the reader on a fascinating journey from her childhood in Kurdistan Region, Iraq, where she refused to join Saddam Hussein’s Party at the age of seven, to her relocation to Europe and finally her rise onto the world stage as award-winning humanitarian and champion for human rights.īorn in the mountains of Kurdland, Widad was seven years old when she stood up against the mounting atrocities of the Iraqi Baath Party and defended her rights and those of her classmates, which well-nigh cost her her life.

Widad Akreyi, the winner of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award.īuy a copy on Amazon, click on E-book and Paperback NovoReads Group is presenting the memoir of Dr.

The Daughter Of Kurdland by Widad Akreyi