Dr. Afrasiaw Hawrami was a great intellectual and archival figure of Kurdistan. During his stay in the Soviet Union, he had a golden opportunity to dig up documents and archives of that country and prepare important articles related to Kurdish history as writing or translation and publish them as books. He has 21 books, some of which have been printed and others have survived as manuscripts.
Afrasiaw is the son of Hama Sharif, son of Khawaja Hussein, and is known as Afrasiaw Hawrami.
He was born on #21-03-1957# in the Nodshay township of the Hawraman region of East Kurdistan.
He completed his education in Nodsha and Bandar Abbas and became a teacher.
He served as a teacher in Khane and Nodsha and served the revolutionary spirit of Kurdish students with his life.
Dr. Afrasiaw Hawrami was a Kurdish lover who had strong opinions and was imprisoned and tortured for it.
He played a prominent role in the Iranian People's Revolution and participated in the revolution in East Kurdistan with his father and brother as Peshmergas.
Then they were forced to come to South Kurdistan and in the south, he was forced to move to the Soviet Union through the Iraqi Communist Party. He settled in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he studied law. He then went to Russia, where he continued his studies at Ivanov University and graduated with a Ph.D.
After graduating and learning Russian, he had a golden opportunity in Moscow to dig up old Soviet archives and documents and find many important articles about Kurdish and Kurdistan history he used them as a source for writing many valuable books and translated some other books and articles from Russian into Kurdish.
In general, Dr. Afrasiaw Hawrami has 21 books in this field, some of which have been published and others have been left behind as manuscripts.
His most prominent books include Kurds in the Russian War with Iran and Turkey, East Kurdistan during World War II, Kurds in Russian and Soviet Archives, Mustafa Barzani in Some Soviet Documents, Kurds Behind the Caucasus, East Kurdistan Events in Soviet Documents, Kurdistan Relations and Azerbaijan and the collapse of both sides in 1946 in documents and sources, the tragedy of the Soviet Kurds, the Sheikh Said Piran Revolution and the Soviet Union) and many others.
He has published several articles and research on the place of Kurds in Soviet documents in Kurdish newspapers and magazines.
All this concern and passion was that the Kurdistan political leadership help in the great wealth of Kurdish archives in Russian and Soviet documents and send academics there to write about this important history and this important wealthy history and for this purpose, he visited most of the Kurdish leaders. Unfortunately, his wish did not come true and his untimely death buried that dream.
Unfortunately, this prominent Kurdish academic and personality passed away on #15-12-2010# in Moscow. On December 23, 2010, his body was sent to Tehran in a worthy ceremony and then brought back to Marivan and buried in Dar Sayran cemetery.[1]