She was a linguist, fluent in Kurdish, Persian, Arabic, French, Russian, German, and English. An independent thinker, she appreciated communist theory. Later in life she said that the reason she chose to become a member of the Tudeh party was that when she decided to actively engage in the women's rights movement, the only party who was willing to accept her [as a woman] and give her a chance to do something at that time was the Tudeh Party.
A linguist with expertise in multiple languages, an independent thinker who embraced communist ideology, she joined the Tudeh party due to its acceptance of women in the context of their activism for women's rights.