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Zara Mohammadi or Zahra Mohammadi (Kurdish:زارا محەممەدی; born 1990 in Dehgolan) is a Kurdish activist and language teacher. [1] [2] The BBC has named Zara Mohammadi as one of the 100 Inspiring and influential women of 2022. [3] Zara Mohammadi was sentenced to five years in Sanandaj Women's Prison for teaching people her mother tongue.
Zara Mohammed (born 2 August 1991) [1] is a Pakistani-Scottish faith leader currently serving as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain since 2021. [2] She is the first woman to lead the organisation.
Haale (stage name of Haale Gafori), singer, composer, and poet. Sings in both English and Farsi, and has recorded music albums with both her own poetry and those of Rumi, Attar, and Forough Farrokhzad; Pejman Hadadi, internationally acclaimed tonbak player and Persian classical musician. Member of Axiom of Choice and the Dastan Ensemble
The law graduate believed women should be able to walk home, her family said.
Mohammadi (Arabic: محمدي, Persian: محمدی, meaning related to Muhammad) is a common Afghan, Iranian and Sindhi surname. In Sindh, Mohammadi people reside in Pano Akil , Ghotki , Salehpat and Khanpur Mahar areas.
It is possible that the name has Hebrew origins in the word saraja, translating to sovereign, ruler, or a woman of high rank. Other interpretations say that Zara is a form of the name Sara (pronounced Zara in German). Some say that it is the English form of the name Zaïre, the central character of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaïre (The Tragedy of Zara).
100 Women is a BBC multi-format series established in 2013. The annual series examines the role of women in the 21st century and has included events in London [1] and Mexico. [2] [3] Announcement of the list is the start of an international "BBC's women season", lasting three weeks including broadcast, online reports, debates and journalism on the topic of women. [4]
Mahmoodi was born in 1990 near Tehran, Iran, the child of Hazara refugees who had fled persecution in Afghanistan in 1975. In 2000, when she was nine, she organised a girls' football club at her school, but this was shut down by the school administration.