Mala Bakhtiar is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Chawder. He has authored more than twenty books covering domestic and international politics, human rights, and political developments. Mala Bakhtiar was a senior commander of Kurdish revolutionary forces fighting against the Saddam Hussein regime from the mid-1970s to 1991. Currently, he is a member of the high political council of interest of PUK, one of the ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan.
