Unpresented Photostory
Sersheqam, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan – 2019
Nana Kaffe as known in her neighborhood, might be the oldest living person in central Sulimany, Kaffe Muhammad is an old lady who lives alone in her own house and is more than 100 years old. Her exact birthdate is forgotten. However, it is said to be something between late 1890 to the beginning of 1900. She mostly remembers the times of both world wars. Nana Kaffe was married when she was seven years old to a guy who was raised by her dad when he found him orphaned. And when he became a police man, her dad offers him young Kafe as her wife, just as she enters puberty. her first pregnancy would be her first egg on her first period at the mere age of 12 years old. “Every time my husband would have come home I would run and hide screaming ‘the man is home ’” she said. as in she was so young that she didn’t know him as her husband. She mothered many babies that never saw the light of day, she gave birth to 8 alive babies, 4 of them died and 4 of them lived. Nana Kaffe grows older than all of her kids and spent her last days with her grandchildren and their grandchildren.
