Mirza Dinnayi was born in
Sinjar, Iraq. His father Hasan Ali Aga was the chief of the Yazidi Dinnayi tribe. Since school Mirza started writing on Yazidi troubled state in Iraq. Later, as a student of the Medical faculty, he joined students’ opposition to
Saddam Hussein and his statecraft. In 1992 he had to flee to
Iraqi Kurdistan.{{cite web During the
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War Mirza Dinnayi applied for political asylum in Germany. Soon, he became a prominent member of the Yazidi expatriate community. After the
2003 USA invasion of Iraq and Hussein’s fall, Dinnayi was offered a post of the presidential adviser for minority rights to
Jalal Talabani. Mirza worked in this position for almost a year. On August 14, 2007, two suicide bombers set off car bombs in two Yazidi towns near
Mosul. Mirza Dinnayi initiated the fundraising company for the victims and asked his friends from
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper to print the call for help. Two German hospitals acceded, offering free of charge medical help to the injured children. The main issue was their transfer to Germany as the children were coming from poor families and had no documents. After the first mission, Dinnayi realized there were no charity organizations that worked with the Iraqi. This idea inspired him to establish Air Bridge Iraq (). Its name was taken after , a
West Berlin rescue mission in the
World War II. In 2007–2014 Luftbrücke Irak helped 150 children and women to find asylum and get medical help in Germany. In early August 2014,
ISIS militants occupied
Sinjar. The
Yazidis escaped to the
Sinjar Mountains. Mirza Dinnayi was one of the persons, who persuaded the Iraq prime minister to evacuate the civilians by helicopters. Dinnayi himself guided the pilots, who didn't know the local terrain. On the 12th of August, 2014, the
Mi-7 helicopter with Dinnayi on board crashed in a few minutes after the ascent. With the broken leg and ribs, Mirza Dinnayi survived and was transported to
Germany. Shortly afterward, in a wheelchair he returned to
Iraq – to visit the rescue camp in
Khanke,
Kurdistan Region where displaced
Yazidi refugees who fled from
Sinjar region were staying. In the rescue camp Dinnayi found out that the Yazidi women, saved from sexual slavery in ISIS, suffered from double psychological trauma – apart from the abuse itself, they experienced severe condemnation from the conservative Yazidi society. Mirza Dinnayi arranged the evacuation to Germany, where the specialist helped the victims to deal with severe depressions, anxiety attacks, self-imposed isolation, insomnia, and suicidal ideations. More than a thousand women and children were transferred to Germany, including future social rights activist and the
Sakharov Prize winner
Lamiya Haji Bashar and Nobel Prize Laureate Nadia Murad.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-yazidi-trial/yazidi-doctor-awarded-for-his-work-helping-women-calls-for-justice-idUSKBN1WZ015 == Awards ==