Dildar

Early life and education Dildar was born on 20 February 1918 in the Bafri Qandi Quarter of the town of Koy Sanjaq located in the Mosul Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now the Erbil Governorate of Iraq. In his youth, he attended primary school in Ranya. He then completed his secondary education at a high school in Kirkuk. Dildar then moved to Baghdad to study law.

Life Literary style Dildar’s first poem was published in the Ronakî magazine in 1935, while he was a secondary student and only seventeen years old.

Prison and death Ey Reqîb

After being arrested, he was sent to prison in Iran, where he wrote the poem "Ey Reqîb" meaning "Oh Enemy", in 1938, referencing the prison guards, and expressing that the Kurds were alive and will not back down from fighting for a free Kurdistan. His expression of frustration and direct confrontation with the occupiers of Kurdistan made "Ey Reqîb" a symbol in the Kurdish cause for freedom. and widely adopted by Kurds in the four parts of Kurdistan.