International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles from January 1 2002

International Journal of Kurdish Studies archives from January 1 2002

Editor's note.(few accounts of Kurdish history)
January 1, 2002... In 1863 Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, one of France's foremost literary critics, introduced his The History of English Literature, with a lament on centuries past when, "men of every race and of every epoch were represented as about alike; 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...

The rise and fall of Media.(Ancient Near East)
January 1, 2002... In his "History of Media" I.M. Diakonoff wrote that "till the middle of the last century the state of our knowledge of Media was approximately the same as of any other land of the Ancient Near East; only scant, fragmented, almost legendary...

Were the Assyrians at Ecbatana?
January 1, 2002... The historical geography of Media of the 9th-7th century B.C. presents one of the most complicated problems in the history of the Ancient Near East. The toponyms of Media testified by Assyrian sources do not coincide with the later Median...

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...

Thoughts on the struggle against "honor killing".(In Memory of Fadime Sahindal)
January 1, 2002... Fadime Sahindal was a young Kurdish-Swedish woman studying in a Swedish university. On 21 January 2002, Fadime's father shot her dead while she was visiting her sister in Uppsala. He confessed to the killing, telling police that his daughter...

Aesthetic aspects in the poetry of Mala-ye Jaziri.
January 1, 2002... THE POET'S LIFE The life of the Kurdish Sufi poet Mala-ye Jaziri has been a matter of dispute amongst the biographers and writers of Kurdish literary history since the mid-nineteenth century. The gap between the earliest and the latest...

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...

'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...