KURDISH WOMEN
FROM THE EARLIER CENTURIES

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The Kurdish women from 18th century, sourche: A von SCHWEIGER LERCHENFELD, Stockholm 1881

Antique wood engraved print, 1891

A Kurdish Jewish Girl From Sene in Eastern Kurdistan, 1896

Bakhtiari Peasant Girl 1896

Dancer des femmes Kurdes (Dancing Kurdish Women in Lacin (Caucasus) - 1838

The grand Kurdish Trubador. Folklorvan û dengbêja granbuha ya serdemê Ayshe Shan (1938 Amed - 18-12-1996 Îzmîr

Hayriye Cemil Pasha, doughter of Ekrem Cemil Pasha, 1951, Damascus in exile. Hayrie died young in 1953.

Danseuse l'oriente: Laila Badr Khan, 1960:ies at La Scala Theatre

Leîla Qasem, a patriotic Kurdish student, became hanged by the Iraqi Baas regime (1952-1974)

The legendary Kurdish singer in 1950's: ZADINA SHEKIR, The Kurdish Radio, Yerevan

Rewshen Salih Bedir Xan (1909 – 1992) - The wife of the Kurdish intellectual Mîr Jaladet Bedir Khan
Destnivîsên Rewshen Salih Bedir Xan

Frîca Cewarî (1932-1993) Kurdish Author from the former Soviet Armenia

Margaret Shello, the legendary freedom fighter from Southern Kurdistan

Kurdish teen-girls in traditional cloths from Mahabad, 1941, Eastern Kurdistan

Kurdish Yezidi women in Tbilisi

Kurdish Woman, JOURNAL des VOYAGES -1910

Kurdish woman from Caucasus

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