In her own words:
I, Najiba Mahmoud Salih, was born in the year 1969.
In 1984-1985, I started my political career in the ranks of the Communist Party in southern Kurdistan. I studied in Persian in Mahabad, East Kurdistan, until my secondary school which I studied in Kaneskan in Sulaymaniyah in South Kurdistan. Later, because of my husband's arrest and imprisonment and my political activities, the party warned us that we would have to disappear for a while. I had to drop out of school and continued my political work in organizing in the city.
In 1988, I graduated from the Press Institute. At the request of the Communist Party, I worked as a printer. I continued to make statements and create Adam Tarooz for the movement of Peshmergas and secret comrades in Charta during the uprising.
In 1991, along with my political work, I devoted myself to defending women's rights in several conferences on women's issues and human rights in the UK, Poland, Sweden, Oman, and Norway, in addition to participating in several workshops and training courses Human Rights and Women's Rights, as well as the founding committee of organizations (Rasan for the Protection of Women's Rights, Nawa Center for the Protection of Women, Pana Center for the Protection of Women in Kirkuk). I have several articles and writings on the situation of women's rights. I was a member of the group to determine the fate of the Anfal girls sold to Egypt.
From 1997 to 2004 I was a member of the Secretariat of the Women's Association.
From 1997 to 2004, I was a member of the Sulaymaniyah Local Committee of the Kurdistan Communist Party. In 2004, I resigned from political activities due to the danger to my life and the party's inaction in this regard.
In 2005, I received the Golden Purple Flower Award from the Ministry of Human Rights along with four other women as an activist in the field of women's situation. I was the supervisor of more than 44 women's organizations, civil society organizations and personalities.
From 2001 to 2003, I was the editor of the newspaper Voice of Women, which was the language of the Kurdistan Women's Association, with the assistance of Ms. Ahlam Mansour.
From 2004 to 2008, I worked for Civil Development Organization as Head of Women's Projects.
In 2008 I traveled abroad and settled in Sweden.
In 2012, after studying languages, I started working as a director, preparer and presenter of two programs, a general program and a special program on women's issues, to continue my unfinished work there until 2017.
In 2017, after the closure of Newroz, I resumed working at Arian.
I was the founding member of Sardami Zhn magazine, and now I am the editor and franchisee of the magazine.
I am an active member of the Kurdistan Union of Journalists in Kurdistan, Sweden, and the World.[1]