Rahim Rashidi (Mr. Kurd) was born in 1978 in Markhoz village, Saqqez, Kurdistan. Rashidi started his career as a Peshmerga and can speaks Kurdish, Farsi, Swedish, and English. Today, he is a human rights activist, writer, and journalist. He has been interviewed by many local and international media, press, radio and television agencies on local, and global political, historical, and social issues and affairs. Rashidi began journalism in 1996 working for “Voice of Iranian Kurdistan” Radio and “Kurdistan” Newspaper. In 2004 he became a member of the editorial team of “Rêjwan” magazine in Sweden, publishing in Swedish and Kurdish. Rashidi has translated tens of literary, political, and social articles into Kurdish, including the following four books: In Africa it's Always Midsummer, The Principles of a Democratic State, Peaceful and Civil Struggle, and Women's Rights, Human Rights. From 2006 to 2010, Rahim was a member of the board of directors and the editor of the news department for “Tishk TV,” located in Paris, France.Rashidi has been a member of the “Swedish Union of Journalists” and the “International Federation of Journalists.”.