Girl With A Gun
Girl with A Gun, the story of Diana Nammi’s life as a peshmerga fighter, was published in March 2020. Karen and Diana are currently having discussions about the book being made into a film. Watch this space!
Book
Girl With A Gun
Born in the Kurdish region of Iran, Diana Nammi became a fighter with the peshmerga – Kurdish freedom fighters – when she was only seventeen. She had been involved in politics as a teenager and played a part in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The new Islamic regime tolerated no opposition, and, at risk of execution, Diana felt she had no choice but to become a soldier in the famed military force. She spent twelve years on the front line, and helped lead the struggle for women’s rights and equality, becoming one of the Iranian regime’s most wanted in the process. As well as being the startling account of Diana’s time as a fighter, Girl with a Gun is also a narrative about family and resilience, with a powerful love story at its heart.
Girl With A Gun will soon be available in audio book.
Reviews
What my readers say…
‘Girl with a Gun is by far one of the most empowering and inspiring books I’ve picked up. I don’t want it to finish and I’m so scared I’m nearing the end. I want to keep imagining the beautiful sceneries described, feel my heart racing at the exhilarating moments of strength, passion and power. For a Kurdish girl like me, this book is everything I ever needed growing up. Even now, Diana is an icon, a hero.’
Payzee Malika
'One of the best books I have ever read. Everyone should read this book.'
Amazon reviewer
'This story will bring you into its spell from the very start. There's the admiration you'll feel for Diana Nammi who tells how she came to join the peshmerga soldiers to defend Kurdistan, her country, her people from the ravages of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in the late 70s - as we, in the west, were playing at being revolutionary. You'll be inspired by Diana Nammi's commitment to make women's lives better - there as well as in the West: when she moved to the UK in 1995, true to her political and humanitarian beliefs, she founded the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation, an organisation that does so much to help women at risk of 'honour' killing live safer lives. A book that will make you believe there is a better world out there and women like Diana Nammi work to bring it about.'
Francesca Valli
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