International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles

Recent articles from International Journal of Kurdish Studies

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... This 15th anniversary issue features the writings of men whose travels and observations would leave their mark on Kurds in the 20th century. They traversed remote regions of Turkey and Persia in the 19th and early 20th centuries and left us vivid accounts of landscape, peoples and places....

'Holy Moses': a little divertissement.
January 1, 2002... Travelers who have been in Kurdistan, and who have traversed its high, wild land, do not speak with much fervor about the magnanimity and glory of its inhabitants; nor is its cultivation a matter of eulogy. If a man became rich in that country by raising handsome crops, it was the custom of...

The darkness in light impressions: Kurdish character sketches.
January 1, 2002... Over time an accumulation of words attaches to events and to people, melding into a kind of stereotype. The composite is a shorthand that simplifies and summarizes the complex and imposes something resembling order on life's pristine chaos. And that's good. But in the process, information...

The Kurds in Lebanon: a social and historical overview.
January 1, 2002... There are thousands of studies on the Kurds living in Kurdistan and the countries dividing it. Even the relatively more recent Kurdish communities in Europe gained more research attention than the older Kurdish community in Lebanon. This article therefore fills a serious research gap in the...

A tangled web they weave: the mystery of Kurdish roots.
January 1, 2002... Kurds often complain that their ancestors, particularly the illustrious ones, are at best misidentified, at worst misappropriated. And therefore credit does not accrue where credit is due. Take for example, Karim Khan Zand (or Zend), a notable to whom more than a few Kurds refer with...