Professor Pakizah was born on 08-04-1924 in Sulaymaniyah, on the day of the bombing of the city when the people had evacuated, in a cave in Soordash.
She completed her primary education in Kurdish between 1931-1937 in Sulaymaniyah.
In 1929, she was sent to the room of Mullah Amina (Mamza) with the girls and boys of her city, but she studied there for a short time.
In 1938, she moved to Baghdad and completed her high school education in Arabic.
She was appointed as the principal of the Sadiqa Sulaymaniyah Girls School.
In 1948, she resumed her studies and received a bachelor's degree.
In 1949, she was admitted to Harvard University in the Department of Oriental Languages (Semitic and Iranian languages).
In 1951, she was the first person in Iraq to obtain a master's degree in this field.
In the same year, she returned to Iraq and was employed as a linguist and ancient historian at the College of Arts.
She was sent to London to study for a doctorate in linguistics. A year later, she got married and was later sent to Cairo University for a doctorate in Oriental Languages, but her studies were delayed for several family reasons.
From 1958 to 1987, she was the head of the Kurdish Department of the College of Arts, Baghdad University.
In 1967-1978 she taught Kurdish and Arabic at the University of Berlin.
In 1970, she was the first Kurdish woman to be named a member of the Kurdish Information Forum.
From 1977-1986 she was sent as a visiting lecturer at the University of Jordan-Amman.
She returned to Iraq in 1986 and returned to Salahaddin University at her own request.
- She has published hundreds of linguistic discourses on Kurdish language and ancient Kurdish history.
- She has written a book on Kurdish grammar from the perspective of modern linguistics.
- She has published a collection of poems on the Kurdish issue entitled Kurds and a Thoughtful Life.
- She published all the works of her father (Rafiq Hilmi), who was the leader of the Hiwa Party.
- Her memoirs commemorate 75 years of Kurdish history during her lifetime.
-Dictionary (Kurdish - Old Pahlavi Persian)
She died on 13-08-2003.[1]