Sabriya Nouri Qadir was more commonly known as Solav's mother. She was born in 1928 in Sulaymaniyah. She completed her primary education and was interested in reading poetry and drawing since childhood. As a child, she wrote several simple poems about the beauty of spring and the mountains of Goyzha and Azmar. She has been living in Uppsala since 1996 as a Kurdish refugee in Sweden. She is the mother of six daughters and one son.
In 1956, she published an article entitled Women, Women and Home in the newspaper Zhin, in which she defended women's freedom. After that, she published several other poems for children and several articles about defending the freedom and rights of Kurdish women in the newspaper Zhin and the magazine Dangi Mamoste. In addition to Solav's mother, who is named after her fourth daughter, she has also published several poems and articles under the title of a Kurdish sister.
At that time, Solav's mother asked Kurdish women to stop wearing headscarves and long dresses, because she believed that it was a foreign tradition and asked them to appear in authentic and beautiful Kurdish clothes. In 1956, she and Hero, the daughter of the Kurdish poet Goran, took off their robes in front of the Sulaymaniyah Palace. Since then, Solav's mother has been seen everywhere and on every occasion wearing beautiful Kurdish clothes.
“On that day, many people congratulated us and some women, who were oppressed by masculinity, thought it was brave and fearless,” Solav's mother said in an interview.
Solav's mother was the first woman to guide Kurdish children through poetry. Her poems are simple and easy.[1]