Author: Helene Krulich-Ghassemlou

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3643909225

It was during a party at the university, in a Czechoslovakia then under communist rule, that Hélène Krulich, nicknamed here Léna, met Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou. In her slight accent, she thinks he is Slovak. He is Kurdish, Muslim, but claims to be unbeliever. To be able to marry her at the Iranian embassy in Prague, Lena converted to Islam. In convoking, she marries with him the Kurdish cause: her husband will become, over the years, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan of Iran (PDKI) and the most respected leader among the Kurdish movements of his country, and elsewhere. Lena and Abdol Rahman move to Tehran. What is exceptional about Lena is the love she will now bring to Kurdistan, whose landscapes invade her and will not leave her, and to the Kurds, who are gradually learning to know and love. This Westerner will become Kurdish in her soul, without departing from the strong awareness she has of the necessary equality between men and women. One day, Lena was alone with her daughters. AR Ghassemlou paid with his life for his fight. In Vienna, in July 1989, he was shot dead in ambush by the emissaries of Ayatollah Khomeini's successor, with whom he was supposed to begin peace talks. Lena still wonders how this man, so sharp and so fine, was able to trust the promises of the Iranian leaders whose duplicity he knew yet. A political trajectory that restores Marc Kravetz in the afterword of this book. without departing from the strong awareness that she has the necessary equality between men and women. One day, Lena was alone with her daughters. AR Ghassemlou paid with his life .--Amazonfr.prenium