Mahabad Qaradaghi or Mehabad Qeredaxî (born 1966), is a Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 writer, poet and translator. She was born in Kifri

Kifri

Kifri is a town in Iraq and a seat of Kifri District. The district population was estimated at 42,010 in 2003 . Kurds form the majority of the population both in this town and in the District, which is currently part of Diyala Governorate...

, a town near Kirkuk

Kirkuk

Kirkuk is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, north of the capital, Baghdad...

. Her first collections of poems were published in 1980, and was imprisoned by the Ba'athist regime from 1980 to 1981. In 1993, she emigrated to Sweden

Sweden

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. She is currently the adviser of Prime Minister in Women Issues, in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) , in Arbil

Arbil

Arbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...

, Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

.

Works

1. Panorama: Poem. , 206 pp., Skinnskatteberg, 1993. ISBN 91-630-2071-8.
2. Shakh kelga-y qanmashami ya : Poem , 90 pp., Skinnskatteberg , 1994. ISBN 91-630-2476-4.
3. Koç : novel , 163 pp., Skinnskatteberg, 1994. ISBN 91-630-2478-0.
4. To Revive Women ( Le Pênawî Jîyanewey Afiret da), 174 pp., Newroz Publishers, Stockholm, 1995.
5. Dan Piyananêkî Piyawane, translation of a novel by Nawal As-Sadawi, 175 pp., Skinnskatteberg, 1994. ISBN 91-630-2480-2.
6. Şê'r Henasey Gerdûne : Translation of contemporary poems of women, 94 pp., Falköping, 1994. ISBN 91-630-2962-6.
7. Poetry is the breath of the universe : worlds poetry, translated by Mahabad Qaradaghi, 95 pp., ISBN 91-630-2962-6.
8. Germiyan, with Fahmi Kakaee and Amjad Shakely , 155 pp., Falköping, 2000, ISBN 91-972974-9-6.
9. Bawegurgur, with Fahmi Kakaee and Amjad Shakely, 201 pp., Falköping, 2001, ISBN 91-972974-8-8.
10. Azadkirdinî Mêjû: Lêkolînewe le ser kêşey jinan, 203 pp., Sardam Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 2002.http://www.stadsbibl.sundsvall.se/sv/opac/visa_visa.asp?bokid=0000232937&host_nr=1
11. Mergî mirov û nîwêk : Collection of short stories, 232 pp., Aras Publishers, Arbil, 2004.
12. Şerefname : "şeref" kodêke bo koylekirdinî jin : pênasekirdinewey çemkî şeref û cestey jin, women issues, Kitêbî Herzan Publishers, 2004. ISBN 91-975187-0-0.http://www.bibliotek.molndal.se/sv/opac/visa_visa.asp?bokid=0000211531&host_nr=1
13. Nexşey diwarojî kirêkar, Poem.
14. Saxêlkey genmesamiye, Poem.
15. Mîdalya, Poem.
16. Hajey roh, Poem.
17. Snöfåglar, Poem. (in Swedish)
18. Fentazya, Novel.
19. Azadkirdinî mêjû, Analysis.
20. Ziman, raman û nasname, Analysis.
21. Jin û komelge le qonaxî balindeyî Şêrko Bêkes da, (Woman and society in the poems of Sherko Bekas
    Sherko Bekas
    Sherko Bekas , , is a prominent contemporary Kurdish poet. He was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan as a son of the Kurdish poet Fayak Bekas....
    
    ).
22. Nanî jehrawî , Translation of a Play by Vesselin Hanchev.