Fatah Kawian is a long-time figure in East Kurdistan who has held several party and government positions during his lifetime, including the mayor of Mahabad during the monarchy in Iran and a member of the National Language Council in Iran.
He was also a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for many years. He has written and translated several works, the most important of which is the dictionary (Hawtawana). He passed away on January 18, 2017 in Koya.
Fatah Kawian was born in 1936 in Mahabad. He completed his primary education in Mahabad. Due to his family circumstances and settlement in Sina, he spent several years in secondary school there. He returned to Mahabad with his mother in the fourth grade of secondary school. After completing the fifth grade of science, he was employed as a physical education teacher in Mahabad. In 1957, he became a member of the secret cell of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1959, following a nationwide attack by the Savak on the secret organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran (KDP-I), which covered the area from Kermanshah to Salmas and resulted in the arrest of nearly 250 people, Fatah Kawian was arrested and imprisoned. After being sent to Tehran and tried, they were sentenced to life imprisonment along with several others. However, under the influence of the political situation in Iran, the Shah issued an amnesty and released all but a small number of political prisoners.
After his release from prison, Fatah Kawian graduated from Tehran University and received a bachelor's degree in English. He worked as a teacher and director of teaching at the National Language Institute for 12 years (until a year before the fall of the Shah's regime). He later returned to Mahabad with his family and children. Because of his reputation, Fatah Kawian took over the post of mayor of Mahabad as the Shah's regime weakened. In 1978, he actively participated in organizing demonstrations against the monarchy in Mahabad and when the struggle of the Kurdish people and the whole of Iran led to the fall of the Pahlavi regime, he joined the party struggle.
Fatah Kawian rejoined the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran (KDP-I) in the winter of 1978 and remained a member of the KDP until February 10, 2006. Fatah Kawian is fluent in Kurdish, Persian and English, as well as literary ability and skills in writing and translation. In 1979, he was appointed to the responsibility of the Democratic Party's Investigation Commission and carried out this responsibility along with other daily party duties until 1981. At the Fifth Congress of the Democratic Party, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. From the 5th Congress of the Democratic Party to the 13th Congress, Fatah Kawian was continuously elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party.
Fatah Kawian spent his time working in one or more fields such as sports, dictionary writing, translating books, writing literary articles and other cultural work. Fatah Kawian's cultural works include the preparation of the famous dictionary “Hawtawana” and the translation of the book “Kurd's Qasemloo's Passion and Death” from English into Kurdish and some other books and works that have not been published yet.[1]