[1] Nasiba Zeynalova was born in Baku (then part of the Russian Empire, present-day capital of Azerbaijan), the daughter of merchant and stage actor Jahangir Zeynalov.

[2] The family fled to Iran just before the Azeri massacre of March 1918 committed by Bolshevik military units in Baku.

On March 17, 2016, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, signed a decree on the celebration of Nasiba Zeynalova’s 100th anniversary.

[5] On January 18, 2017, a literary and artistic evening was held at the Azerbaijan Cultural Center in Vienna to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Nasiba Zeynalova’s birth.

During the jubilee event, the feature film Mother-in-Law (Qayınana) was screened for the first time with German subtitles.