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Ahmad Hardi, the Kurdish Arthur Rambo

Dr. Azad Mukri

From "Revolutionary" Kurdish Poets to "Anti-Republic" Persian Poets

Comparing two poems written at the same time for a republic system by a poet from the center of Iran named Mirzade Eshqi and a Kurdish poet living in a distant city in the East part of Kurdistan can clarify many things for us. Since the social structure of the Kurdish people in Kurdistan was a political structure even before the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, the people could understand the Monarchy's corrupted system much better.

Positive and Negative Effects of Stories on Children's Imagination - Part 1

As much as good stories have a positive impact on children and their imagination, bad stories have as much negative impact on memory, mind, emotions, imagination, and lifestyle and target children's personalities.

Mohammad Saleh Dilan, a Poet Singer

Dilan began to write poems when Kurdish literature was on the verge of a separation. At that time, the first moves of Kurdish poets and writers began in a modernist manner.

A Pen and Notebook From Rody and Parwin's Library

As if a terrible evening awaited them, the clouds moved heavily that evening. It was neither evening nor morning. Rody and Parwin, along with their families, mothers, brothers, and sisters, were killed by killers with black and dark flags.

I Write in My Own Language

Yes, after twenty years of writing in my own language, I cannot write in any other language even if I wanted to, however, I always have wanted to write down my words in my own language gradually.

The Cultural Richness of Hazhar Mukeryani's Book, Cheshti Mijewr

Hazhar's autobiography has been identified to be similar to an archeological source, an ancient and rich monument. This book has included several fields of intellectual, social, and daily life, Kurdish intellectuals, the contemporary era, the Barzani revolution, Kurdistan Republic independence, Kurdish characters and personalities, four parts of Kurdistan, the Social-political situation of that time, Kurdish sociology, Kurdish literature and … 

The First Day of Autumn and Remembering a Great Oppression

"Why should I learn to read and write in Persian while I am Kurdish?! Why should not I have one Kurdish book to help me learn my native language?! Why do they call us Kurds, brave border protectors in these books?! Why do the Persian children learn in their mother tongue but I do not have such a right?! And tens of other questions …"

Mulazm Tahsin and The Ideological Face of Love

This story written by Farhad Pirbal contains a kind of rebelliousness in educating the Kurdish human being. As long as we have seen characters in Kurdish novels and texts, Kurdish humans have been characterized and identified as being compared to their Others. However, those Kurds who have become the enemy's spies and follow their ideology which is against the Kurdish nation and are known as Jash (a traitor) are not characterized as well as the real Kurds.

Once Upon a Time, I had a language!

Concepts that I could not understand in the dominant or foreign language are now clearer in my mind in the Kurdish language.

The Pain of Words in Ahmad Hosseini's Poem

In the field of modern Kurdish literature, Ahmad Hosseini is one of the bases of the development of modern poetry. I won't talk about the beginning. In modern poetry, through allegory and metaphor, Husseini's words flow like water down the throats of his readers.

Kurds, Weddings, Camping

As soon as I have an opportunity, I will escape the house. I still have not left when my sister says: "buy two chickens and an orange coca kola for dinner." Rasoulo Papouko, the smallest member of the family is the family's dog.

Sayd Yaqub Mahidashti, the Poet from Kermashan Between Two Cultures

The poet was also a calligrapher and a talented tambourine player. Sayd Yaqo's poetry was very popular among the Gorans and his style and the way of his view compared to previous poets can be said that he was more influenced by Khana Ghobadi and Almas Khan. However, his work has been more extensive than theirs and, as we have already said, he has expanded the field of his poetic language by experimenting with other languages such as Laki, Kurmanji, and Sorani.

Kurdish Children Are Not Like Other Children in the World

A normal child lives in a peaceful environment in this world. Every day at school they normally learn their mother tongue and when they return home, they live peacefully with their family, their stories are normally read to them, and thus the type of children's literature for that child is good.

A Few Comments on "Capturing the Darkness" By Baxtiyar Ali

Capturing the darkness is a kind of revolution and changing many things in the Northern part of Kurdistan literature and society. In order to know this novel, we need to study and investigate it.

Rasoul Sultani, a Proud Pen; a Clear Mind for Language

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 6

Jani Gal, a strong step towards narration and an endless expectation - Part two (final)

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 5

Jani Gal, a strong step towards narration and an endless expectation - Part 1

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 4

"The Conscience Issue" by Ahmad Mukhtar Bag Jaff and the second step

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 3

Jamil Saeb and the beginning of Kurdish narration - part two

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 2

Jamil Saeb and the beginning of Kurdish narration - part one

The Narration Inheritance in Kurdistan - Part 1

The first Kurdish narratives that had specific identities in long stories such as novels began with Ahmad Mokhtar Jaff's book called "The Conscience Issue" and "In my dream" by Jamil Saeb, and then it continued with novel writers' works such as Arab Shamo, Ibrahim Ahmad, Hossein Aref, Abdullah Seraj, Rahim Qazi and Fattah Amiri.

Ali Hariri, the First Poet in Kurmanji Dialect of the Kurdish Language

All the scripts have mentioned that he was the first poet who wrote poems and prose in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. For instance, "Alexander Jaba" wrote: Ali Hariri was the first Kurdish poet who had written a Kurdish diwan and texts. No matter which one of these two opinions is true, however, there is no doubt that he was the first man who wrote poems in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish because Ahmad Khani has mentioned Ali Hariri's name in his book as his own fugleman.

Khana Ghobadi, the Art of Translation and Linguistic Identity

Khana Ghobadi, who translates Shirin and Khosrow, knows that he is translating a work from another language into his own, but he believes that his language is no less capable than the language of the source text because he can express what the poet of the other language, Nezami, said in his national language.
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