Welcome to the home page of Nazand Begikhani
Dr. Nazand Begikhani was born into an educated
and militant family in the cultural city of Koysinjak in 1964. After finishing her
primary and secondary education in Koysinjak, she studied English Language and
Literature at the University of Mossul.
She has lived in exile since 1987. In 1989 she began her post-graduate studies
in France. In 1997, Nazand was awarded a Ph.D from the Sorbonne University
for her thesis on the representation of Kurdish women in European literature
of the 19th and early 20th century.
She is the founding member of the International Kurdish Women Studies
Network (1996) and Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (2000).
She is currently conducting research on gender and nationalism at the
University of the West of England, department of Economics and Social Science.
Nazand is an active advocate of human rights for women. Her activities go beyond
national and community frontiers, reaching an international arena. She has
represented Kurdish women at the United Nations and presented Kurdish women
demands to the UN authorities in 2000. She was the principal organiser of
the recent international conference on Kurdish women in Paris.
