Golrokh Ghobadi: Golrokh Ghobadi (born 1956 in Sanandaj, Iran) is a Kurdish author, historian, and chronicler of women’s resistance movements in Iranian Kurdistan. As one of the early Kurdish women to join the Peshmerga, she has combined her personal experiences with meticulous historical research to document the lives of women who participated in decades of struggle.
noghteh.org Ghobadi is the author of two seminal works: “Shaqayeq-ha Bar Sanglakh: The Life and Times of a Kurdish Woman” and “Golzar-e Shaqayeq-ha: Untold Stories of Women Fighters of Iranian Kurdistan.”
These books trace women’s resistance from the Pahlavi era through the post-1979 Islamic Revolution and into contemporary Iranian history, drawing on interviews, first-hand accounts, and archival insight.
