(Ahmad Hassan Aziz)
He was born in 1922 in the city #Sulaymaniyah#. He became a primary school teacher in 1941. In the late 1940s, he was dismissed for his political position and imprisoned and expelled several times. In 1957, he published a collection of poems called Razi Tanyayi. In 1959, he founded the Kurdish Union Revival Freedom Association (Kazhik) with some of his other friends.
He joined the Kurdistan Revolution in 1963. He was arrested by the Iranian intelligence agency (SAWAK) in Sardasht in 1966. He returned to Iraqi Kurdistan after his release, after the 11 of march 1970 agreement. From 1973-1974 he was a lecturer in the university of Sulaymaniyah. He joined the revolution again in 1974 and after the collapse of the September(Eylul) Revolution, he fled to Iran until 1979. In 1979, he was disappointed by the civil war and decided to return to Sulaymaniyah to maintain his independent position, after the Baath regime’s atrocities. He rejoined the Kurdistan Revolution and became the Secretary General of the Kurdish Socialist Party (PASOK).
He left PASOK in 1989 and remained in the ranks of the Kurdish revolution until the 1991 uprising. In 1992, he settled in London, where he completed his research on the weight of rhyme in Kurdish poetry. After the fall of the Ba'ath regime, he returned to Kurdistan and published his poetic research in 2004. Because of his life in exile, many researches, literary and artistic texts have been lost and have not seen the light. He passed away on #29-10-2006# in Sulaymaniyah.[1]