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.
He has also published an autobiography (Always Fighting).
Work published on Caltrop Press:
Work published elsewhere:
- Numerous works on Kurdish history on Amazon.com