Hamma Mirwaisi

Hamma Mirwaisi joined the Iraqi pershmerga  as a teenager after Saddam Hussein closed the Kurds’ schools.  He later emigrated to the US, earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and spent his career working on US Air Force projects.  He returned to Iraq as a US Army interpreter.  Today he lives in Florida, where he writes about the history of the Kurds and why they want to be free.

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