This Kurdish progressive service woman was born on 08-09-1917 in Koya, the city of literature, art and science. She was the daughter of a great mullah, a scholar and poet of social poetry.When the people of Koya did not send their sons to formal schools in the early 1920s, her scholarly and philanthropic father enrolled her in 1924 with boys in Koya primary school. By the time she reached the fifth grade and had a conscious cultural background, people enthusiastically put their sons in school.
She has been involved in the political struggle of her nation since the early 1940s and has become a loyal and active supporter of the Hiwa Party. She has awakened the women of her city to fight for their rights and the nation.
With the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on August 16, 1941, she became a loyal member of the Kurdish national democratic party and played a good political role in spreading national awareness and feelings among women in her city. Especially during the times of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic led by the late Peshawar Qazi Mohammad.
She played a good role in the establishment of the Kurdistan Women's Union on 11 December 1953 and was secretly elected as the president of the Kurdistan Women's Union in Koya. After the establishment of the Kurdistan Women's Union (KWU) on July 14, 1985, she was officially elected as the president of the Kurdistan Women's Union (KWU) Koya Branch.
Ms. Najiba participated in the September Revolution and after the collapse of the revolution on March 6, 1975, she remained in Iran from 1975-1977 and suffered a lot of pain and torture in exile. She then returned to Koya and played a social role similar Hapsa Khani Naqib in Sulaymaniyah. She moved to Erbil several years before her death and suffered from osteoporosis in her legs.
During her lifetime, this intellectual woman published three volumes of Qur'anic commentary written by her father the great mullah.
She left behind a number of valuable manuscripts, including:
1. History of Koya
2. History of the Jalizadeh family
3. News of events in Kurdistan during the outbreak of the September Revolution in 1961
4. Kurdish folklore and gifts
Najiba Khani Jalizadeh, a Kurdish intellectual, passed away on the night of June 11, 1999 at the age of 82, leaving behind a series of historical and folklore books.[1]