Who is Yanar Mohammed?

Submitted by Anon on 5 March, 2006 - 11:34

Yanar Mohammed was born in Baghdad in 1960, and trained as an architect there. Resenting the Ba'thist dictatorship, but not yet politically active, she moved to Canada in 1995.

There, she became politically active in the Worker-communist Party of Iraq and a campaign called Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights.

In 2004, after the US/UK invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein, she re-established the campaign - under the new name Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) - in Baghdad.

Her fierce opposition to the political Islam of the Iraqi "resistance" as well as to the US/UK occupation - her commitment to building a "third pole" against both those reactionary forces - has brought her death threats from the Islamists, but she remains active in Baghdad.

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