Dersim Zerevan

Jihan Asaad Sheikhmous (Dersim Zerevan) was born on February 10, 1980 in Qamishlo, Rojava. She is the second child of a family of 8 children, 3 girls and 5 boys. Her activism for social justice started secondary school. She was on the frontlines of the social movements against the persecution of the Kurds by the Syrian regime between 1996-2000. She started to compile guerrilla memoirs and poems at the Literature School in early 2000s. Afterwards, she made researches on Zilan (Zeynep Kınacı) for about three years a...