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poetry that he wrote that deals with a certain person and he praises him or talks in a good
way about him, and this is because sometime in his life that gentleman helped him with
something. It may have been financially, it may have been emotionally, it may have been
with a book or it may have been with a home or anything of that kind.
In 1961 he joined the Kurdish revolution. In 1963, after two years of the
revolution, the Ba’ath party came to be recognized in Iraq. In that same year, the Ba’ath
attacked the Kurdish people. Their military charged through Kurdistan. He was feeling as
if they were coming for him, because of his writing. Because of this, the fear of being
captured by them, and God knows what was going to happen to him, he actually stabbed
himself multiple times in the stomach. In September 1963 he killed himself because of
the fear of the Ba’ath party capturing him.
EM: Here in Dohuk?
RF: In the region of Barwarê. He was in a village, a village named Xişk Haşa. He
killed himself in Xişk Haşa. After he killed himself, the Kurdish military (peşmergas)―
they attacked the Ba’ath party and forced them to run back down toward the south,
toward Baghdad. And they feared for their lives and ran all the way towards Dohuk.
Unfortunately the sad thing, see, is he killed himself before that happened.
SS: The next thing he’s going to talk about is some types of his poetry.
EM: Let me ask one more quick question. Is Nalbend the name of a village?
RF: His full name is Ahmed Amîn. Oh, nalbendî is the word for someone who
fixes the hooves of a horse. His dad―that was his profession. I don’t know the name in
English, the profession where they put the horseshoe on the feet.
EM: Blacksmith?
SS: He says the name in English is “blacksmith.”
RF: His dad―that was his profession. He (Nalbend) chose to go and study
religion. He didn’t follow in his dad’s blacksmithing work, but took his father’s title. He