{{Short description|Yazidi princess}} [[File:Mira Wansa and Meyan Khatun.png|thumb|Mira Wansa and Meyan Khatun around 1935]] '''Mira Khatun Wansa''',<ref>Journal of Royal Central Asian Society., 1941</ref> '''Wansa Ismail el-Amawy'''<ref name="John. pg 8">John S. Guest, ''The Yezidis: a study in survival'', pg. 8</ref> or simply '''Wansa''' (1917 — June 25, 2015) was a Yazidi princess. In 1934–1938 she was the wife of Mir Sa'id Beg. Wansa was born in Tikrit and was a daughter of Ismail Beg. Her brothers were Mua'wia,<ref name="John. pg 8"/> Abd el-Karim and Yezid Khan.
==Biography== In 1929, she entered American School for Girls in Beirut. In 1934, she became the fifth wife of Sa'id Beg, son of Ali Beg and Meyan Khatun in the Stone Palace in Ba'adra.<ref name="John. pg 175">John S. Guest, ''The Yezidis: a study in survival'', pg. 175</ref> Wansa gave birth to a daughter Leyla who died after one year.<ref name="E. S. Drower">E. S. Drower, [http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock.htm ''Peacock Angel'']</ref> In 1938, Said Beg attended a meeting where Wansa's brother Yezid Khan was accused of conspiracy and marked for death. When Said Beg informed Wansa, she pulled out a revolver from beneath her pillow and said "He will hear that you have died first!".<ref name="John. pg 183">John S. Guest, ''The Yezidis: a study in survival'', pg. 183</ref> She fired multiple times, wounding her husband. In the confusion Wansa's Armenian chauffeur Hagop assisted her to escape 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. She then moved to Aleppo.<ref name="John. pg 184">John S. Guest, ''The Yezidis: a study in survival'', pg. 184</ref>
When The Second World War started, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, who was a friend of Ismail, allowed Wansa to return to Baghdad and live under official protection.<ref name="E. S. Drower"/><ref name="John. pg 184"/> In 1947, Wansa converted to Islam and married a Syrian doctor. Wansa died in Cairo on 21 June 2015 in Cairo, Egypt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://elwafeyat.com/mushatra/18696 |title=El-Wafeyat condolesses book |access-date=2016-01-14 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060805/https://elwafeyat.com/mushatra/18696 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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