Items - Digital Archive of the Middle East

Bequest of a Martyr. The Last Testament of Comrade Jelal Ali Marif, executed at Mosul Central Prison, Iraq, on 28 January 1978.

Fifteen-page booklet containing a short biography and last testament of Jemel Ali Marif (1944-78), also known as Jemal Resh, a member of the Kurdistan Marxist Leninist League who was tortured and executed by Iraqi Baathist security forces.

Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (May-June 1965)

Holy Islam

Issue No.3 of 'Holy Islam', a Kurdish-language bulletin published by the Kurdish Islamic movement, featuring articles on religious and political topics, Ba'athism, the peshmerga, poetry, along with photographs of Sheikh Mohammed Hatami, Navvab Safavi and Saddam Hussein.

Poster commemorating martyr Abdulrahman Hamad Faraj

Poster commemorating PUK martyr Abdulrahman Hamad Faraj who was killed in 1986

Poster commemorating PUK martyrs

Poster commemorating Ali Askari, Khalid Said and Hussein Sheikh, PUK members who were killed by the KDP in 1978 at Hakkari. The poster shows portraits of the three martyrs and condemns their killing.

Selected images from a photo album of Xedîce Mustfea Hawêzî [Frîşte Koyî], (1926-2015)

Xedîce Mustfea Hawêzî, known as Frîşte Koyî, or Xûşke Frîşte, was an active member of Iraqi communist party and was elected as member of Iraqi women’s delegation in 1959 attending communist conferences and meetings around the world. Her nephew, Barzan Kerîm Şareza has generously shared her photo album with Dr Farangis Ghaderi to be made accessible.

The New Umma Party (Iraq)

Single page statement about the creation of the New Umma 'New Nation' Party by Iraqi opposition figures in London in 1982, and its aims, including an end to the Gulf War, the removal of Saddam Hussein and a referendum on Kurdish aspirations. The Party's newspaper was 'Al-Tayār al-jadīd.'