About Carol

Carol Prunhuber is a journalist born in Caracas, Venezuela to a well-known Venezuelan actress and an American father in 1956. She studied Literature in Caracas and then pursued her Doctorate in Ibero American Studies in the University of Paris. She has written: Agua, silencio, memoria y Felisberto Hernández (Caracas, 1986) and Femmes: Les Grands Mythes Féminins à travers le Monde (Paris, 1987) published in the USA as Women: Around the World and Through the Ages (1990).

Carol began writing for Spanish-speaking newspapers —later working as a press attaché with prominent diplomats and politicians and became a foreign correspondent for El Nacional (Caracas) in Madrid in the 1980’s.

In 1982, Carol met Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm winner, Kurdish film director from Turkey, Yilmaz Güney which sparked her growing interest in political affairs. Güney introduced her to the Kurdish plight and many of the exiled Kurds living in Paris.

In 1983 Carol met the Iranian Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. Through the French agency Gamma TV, she traveled to Iranian Kurdistan via Baghdad in 1985 to film the struggle of the Kurds in Iran. Following three years of detailed research and interviews, the writing of The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd was completed in 1991. This book, twenty years in the making, is a distillation of her passionate concern and a tribute to the charismatic and forward-thinking Kurdish leader. 

Contact

E-mail: cprunhuber@gmail.com / rahmanthekurd@gmail.com

Interviews and Lectures

Interview in Venezuelan TV, 2008

Iran’s Ethno-Religious Minorities, Capitol Hill, July 2011, Tishk TV

Carol Prunhuber in the Middle East Institute 1 (Washington, DC)

Carol Prunhuber in the Middle East Institute 3

Carol Prunhuber in the House of Representatives (Kurdish Tishk – TV)

Carol Prunhuber in Brújula Internacional (I) (Globovisión - TV Venezuela)

Carol Prunhuber in Brújula Internacional (II) (Globovisión - TV Venezuela)

Carol Prunhuber es entrevistada por JC Pineda