Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini

Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini (Persian: سیده زهرا حسینی‎‎; born 1963) is the narrator of Da (lit. "Mother") book. Ali Khamenei appreciated her for her efforts in Iran-Iraq war.

She was born in Basra a southern city of Iraq in a Kurdish family whose found refuge in Iran after being expelled from their native Iraq. She was the second child of six. Zahra's parents lived in Iraq before she born. They were Iranian Kurds who emigrated from Ilam to Basra. She spent her childhood in Iraq. Her father was captured in Iraq because of his political activities several times therefore Zahra Hosseini with her family emigrated to Iran at the age of five. They settled in Khorramshahr a port city on the Persian Gulf. She left education when she finished the fifth grade.

When she was seventeen years old, Iran-Iraq war occurs. Hosseini and her family were combatants during the Imposed War. In war she aided the war effort in various roles such as cemetery and nursing works. She helped wounded soldiers and civilians. She washed the corpses and collected them and buried martyrs. She also engaged in firefights. On 12 October 1980 she received a dangerous shrapnel wound near her spine and she had to leave the battlefield and spent a month in hospital.

Her father and her older brother killed and her younger brother was injured during Iran-Iraq war. Zahra and her family were active as a combatant in the defense of Khorramshahr.

One Woman's War: Da (Mother) is Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini's memoirs of Iran-Iraq war that written by Seyedeh Azam Hosseini.

In 1981 Zahra Hosseini married to Habib Farahani Khah. They have four children one son Abdollah and three daughters Hoda, Fatemeh and Mina. At first they lived in a suburban area of southwestern Iran and now they inhabits in Tehran.