Astera Karim was born on #29-01-1983# in #Sulaymaniyah#, the daughter of an intellectual man known as Karim Omar Suri Arabanchi. Her father died of cancer and she has a mother, a brother and two sisters. Astera is the third child among her siblings. She grew up in a talented family and is the niece of the great Kurdish artist Omar Chawshin, who served Kurdish theater for fifty years and filled the position of women.

Astera Karim was a talented and intelligent child. She started working as a presenter of the program Butterflies on Kurdistan TV in 1992. She was the first Kurdish child and girl in South Kurdistan to work on the Kurdish screen. He started his primary education in Sulaymaniyah. Later in 1996, he was displaced with his family due to the civil war and moved to Syria for more than a year. After that, he returned to #Erbil# and resumed his studies and media work. He later continued as a political announcer on Kurdistan TV and worked as the first political announcer on the Kurdish section of Ashtar TV.

He reached grade 12 and failed the exams and did not continue his studies. She has been married twice and has a sweet son named San. In 2006, he made the final decision to leave Kurdistan so that his son San’s childhood would not be like his own childhood! He has now received asylum in Sweden with San and lives like anyone else.

On 15-09-2016 she decided to become active through Facebook and on #16-03-2017# she started her first live broadcast on the day of the chemical attack on #Halabja#, to break taboos and rebel against society. It confronts the decayed culture of Kurdish society and social traditions that are born of feudal, tribal and religious culture. This woman's rebellion, her anger, shows one fact that Kurdish society is a society that is oppressive for the individual, especially for the female individual, because it has closed all the windows of freedom to the living being that is female. Her cries are the silent and suffocated longing of every Kurdish woman. What Astera does and how she reacts to it is a scene of a constant struggle between both new and old views, a struggle to incorporate the culture of sanatos and establish the culture of eros, to dominate humanism over patriarchy, masculinity and party politics. However, the war that Astera has waged against the backward cultural structure of society is the war of all those who dream of freedom and innovation In it, thus every one according to his abilities should participate in this war, to open a new page of tradition that humanism is the center of it.[1]