Kurdish nationalism and the tribal and religious loyalties stand in an ambivalent relation to each other. On the one hand, the first Kurdish nationalists were from the ranks of the traditional author...

The country between Urmi and Van is easy, as travel goes in Kurdistan; and, speaking normally, safe. High hills, rising to as much as 11,000 feet, cover the country; and one great mountain saddle, th...

Even when a genocide has been recognized as such, it is sometimes difficult for the observers to understand its scale. This is because, as in the case of the Kurds, most of the journalists and histor...

The Kurdish movement collapsed not because it had established ‘unnatural' alliances but because it did not take the ambiguity of these alliances sufficiently into account and seek to e...

Abdulkarim Surush (Arias) Urmia Kurmanj is a group of Kurds who speak the Kurmanji dialect and most of the Kurds in the world are Kurmanj Kurds. In Iran, Kurmanj Kurds live mostly in Khoras...

Nejmaddin Baban   By recalling a saying, we start a discussion of society and its intellectuals. When the French student movement was in its first steps, student demonstrations and str...

Madura Faris   According to experts, the cinema sector underwent a major movement, especially after World War II. Even in Kurdistan after the 1950s, filmmakers tried to open up th...

The trade turnover in Parvizkhan Border in Krmashan (Kermanshah) province has exceeded $2 billion in the past nine months. The trade turnover in the Parvizkhan border in Krmashan province reache...

Yalda is the birthday of the beautiful symbols of the region's history. A region that has been wounded throughout history and the same symbols have given hope to it. Its wounds have been healed a...