Khider Kosari
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Khider Kosari | |
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| Native name | خدر کۆساری |
| Born | 1969 |
| Died | December 27, 1993 (aged 23–24) Ranya, Iraq |
| Buried | Mountainside of Ranya |
| Allegiance |  Kurdish mujahideen |
| Known for | Poetry |
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Khider Mohammad Rasheed, better known as Khider Kosari (Kurdish: خدر کۆساری; 1969–1993) was a Kurdish Islamist rebel and poet.[1]
Kosari was born in 1969 in Ranya, Kurdistan Region and was not nationalistic or religious during his upbringing, but during the Iran–Iraq War he was recruited by Ali Bapir's faction of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement, which was affiliated with the larger Kurdish mujahideen movement, to fight against Saddam Hussein, and he turned into a Kurdish nationalist and radical Muslim, where he later became known as their poet. He got married in 1986 and had a daughter and a son. In late 1987, he wrote his first poem called "Nigari Khudan", and he used poetry to recruit people.[2][3] He played a major role in the 1991 Iraqi uprisings, and he read his poems from the loudspeaker of the Great Mosque of Ranya.[4][5] He recorded videos of his poetry in Sorani Kurdish, most of the time on mountains during the war, which the videos can be found online.[6]