Mira Khatun Wansa, Wansa Ismail el-Amawy or simply Wansa (born in 1917 in Tikrit

Tikrit

Tikrit is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river . The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative center of the Salah ad Din Governorate.-Ancient times:...

) — Yazidi

Yazidi

The Yazidi are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s – their members emigrating to...

 princesse, in 1934-1938 wife of Mir Sa'id Beg. Wansa was a daughter of Ismail Beg, she also had brothers: Mua'wia, Abd el-Karim and Yezid Khan.

In 1929 she was entered American School for Girls in Beirut

Beirut

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. In 1934 she was married with Sa'id Beg, son of Ali Beg

Ali Beg

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 and Meyan Khatun

Meyan Khatun

Mira Meyan Khatun or Mayan Khatun — Yazidi princess, a regent of Yezidi emirate Sheikhan in 1913-1958/1957. Mayan was a daughter of wellknown Yezidi prince Abdi Beg. She was wife of Mir Ali Beg, mother of Mir Sa'id Beg and a grandmother of Mir Tahsin Beg....

 in th Stone Palace in Ba'adra

Ba'adra

Ba'adra, also rendered Baadre,Badra and Bathra, , is a town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. Ba'adra's residents are mostly Yazidis with a small Assyrian Christian minority....

. She was the fifth wife of Said Beg. Soon Wansa gave birth to a daughter Leyla who died after one year old.

In 1938 there was meeting, where was a discuss around alleged conspirancy of Yezid Khan (brother of Wansa). Said Beg took participation in that council. A decision had been taken that Wansa's brother should be killed. When Said Beg told it to Wansa, she cried, pulling out a revolver

Revolver

A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. The first revolver ever made was built by Elisha Collier in 1818. The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836. This weapon became known as the Colt Paterson...

 from beneath her pillow: He will hear that you have died first!'. She fired times.
In the confusion Wansa's Armenian chauffeur Hagop assisted her to escape in her Buik to Mosul and then to Baghdad, where a hiding place was found for her by Hagop's family, whom Wansa's father Ismail had rescued years before.
Then she moved to Aleppo.

When The Second World War

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 started Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, who was a friend of Ismail allowed Wansa to return to Baghdad

Baghdad

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 and live under official protection.

In 1947 Wansa converted to Islam

Islam

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 and remarried to a Syrian doctor.