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Name: Pakiza Rafiq Hilmi

Place of birth: Sulaimaniya

Date of Birth: 1924

- She's Rafiq Hilmi's daughter, the great Kurdish author. She finished her primary school in Sulaimaniya in 1937 and Preparatory High School in central Baghdad in 1943. After finishing postgraduate studies, she earned a bachelor in literature with honor degree from Teachers Supreme Institute in 1949.

- Graduated from Harvard University in the United States with a master's degree in linguistics in 1951 and received a Higher Diploma at the University of London in 1953. After that, she returned to Cairo and earned a doctorate in linguistics with a specialization in Semitic languages ​​at the University of Cairo in 1958.

- Became Head of the Kurdish Language Department/Faculty of Arts in University of Baghdad in 1958-1970. She was chosen as an active member of the Kurdish Academy since 1970 up to 1978, when she resigned. She also worked as visiting professor in Germany 1969-1971 and at University of Jordan in 1978-1986.

- Member in The Royal Society of Asian RAS in England since 1964. - Member in Association of The Appeal of Social in Baghdad, till it canceled in 1951. - Member in The Iraqi Writers Union in 1959. - Member in the Union of Writers and Authors/Iraq since 1971. - Fluent in Arabic, Kurdish, English, Hebrew, German and Farsi. - Hundreds of her researches published in scientific journals in and outside Iraq.

To know more about her father: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Hilmi