Renowned Kurdish Women
Asenath Barzani was among the first female Rabbis in history. Mestureh Ardalan(1805–1848) was a Kurdish poet and writer. She is well known for her literary works. Lady Adela, Leyla Zana, Leyla Qasim, Professor Kajal Rahmani anthropologist,founder and president, Kurdistan Justice and Peace Academy in the US,champion for Kurdish rights and Feleknas Uca are among the well known women for their role in the modern Kurdish and European politics.
Read more about this topic: Kurdish Women
Famous quotes containing the words renowned and/or women:
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”
—Kate Richards O’Hare (1877–1948)