International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles from January 1 2003

International Journal of Kurdish Studies archives from January 1 2003

This 17th volume of the journal is dedicated to Homayoun Saeedpour (1947-1981).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... "I was born in the city of Sanandaj, Kurdistan in the northwest of Iran. I am the oldest son of a large and traditional Kurdish family that includes three brothers and three sisters. At sixteen years of age, I moved with my...

Editor's note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... "There is that in me, I know not what it is..." In these few words American poet par excellence Walt Whitman admitted a deep dilemma from which even Americans are not immune, though hardly likely to acknowledge. And yet, skimming the surface...

A review of Kurdish life-writing.
January 1, 2003... Introduction "It is a long time that I have waited for a proper situation, full of quietness and loneliness, in order to be able to write down some of my memoirs" (Dlzar?:3). (1) What the old and prominent Kurdish poet and politician Dlzar...

Bafrine (1).(mother daughter relations)
January 1, 2003... They were sitting on the terrace in the sun. Bafrine was leaning against the chest of her mother who was holding her tightly between her knees. Beneath the teeth of the comb, the golden hair, soft and smooth, spread out on the milky skin of the...

Diyarbakir: the slap in the face.(language and identity)
January 1, 2003... In a prominent corner of my office hangs a phrase of Euripides: Omnis hominum vita est plena dolore. That means: man's entire life is full of suffering. It goes without saying that this maxim is not there to encourage suffering. Quite the...

The pomegranate flowers.
January 1, 2003... I My childhood unfolded amidst the flowering pomegranate trees and their enchanting colors. In the garden of the house of the large tribe where I was born and where I grew up, there were four pomegranate trees... With the two peach trees...

My life as a Kurdish artist.
January 1, 2003... Sitting in my studio in Los Angeles in the process of painting, for some kind of reason I was thinking of Vera and wondering how she was doing since I hadn't spoken to her for a while. I knew one thing: if I call her she would challenge me at...

Awat's donkey.(Three Short Stories)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... His mother called him Awat (hope) because she thought that all his hopes would come true when he grew up. Awat was known as Awata shet, the crazy Awat. A teenager, still he had the mental capability of a 6 or 7 year-old child. Awat loved Indian...

The deadly meal.(Three Short Stories)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... Draining lakes of water will kill any fish that might be in it. This was the intention behind the Baathist initiative in the 1980s: to destroy the villages in order to get rid of the Peshmerga forces. In the 1990s the Turkish regime copied this...

Assi's Anfal.(Three Short Stories)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... This is the true story--a story of one Kurd's experience of the Anfal operation in which an estimated 180 thousand Southern (Iraqi) Kurds were slaughtered by the Baath regime. The operation of murdering innocent civilians was described in...

Kurdish poetry: a guide to resources in Arabic, English, and French.
January 1, 2003... POETRY 1. Barwari, Salah (tr.). Mukhtarat min al-Shi'r al-Kurdi al-Mu'asir. [A selection of modern Kurdish Kurdish poems] Damascus: Matba'at al-Jahiz, 1991. 62 p. 2. Bekas, Cherko. "Poemes Kurdes d'aujourd'hui." [Today's Kurdish...

The tale of Suto and Tato: Kurdish text with translation and notes.(from the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, London Institution, Vol. III, 1923-25. Reprinted with permission)(Reprint)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... From the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, London Institution, Vol. III, 1923-25. Reprinted with permission. "The story of Suto and Tato is in no way fiction, it is a lively reality, and anyone even slightly...

Mam Rezgo, the young man and the old one.(Kurdish Stories from My Collection)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... "As in the case of Suto and Tato, there is no need to stress the value of these stories as giving us a vivid picture of the Kurdish mentality." Basil Nikitine Three or four years ago in the vicinity of...

Sheikh Soleyman.(Kurdish Stories from My Collection)
January 1, 2003... It is said that there lived once in the ashiret of Zibar a man, a worthy person. His occupations were theft and robbery. He carried out a big theft in Akra, and evidence being against him the Government caught him. By some means or other he...

Hassan Beg, Mir of Hakkari and the good news: a spring bird.(Kurdish Stories from My Collection)(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... In former years (the tribe of) Hakkari had a Mir, who was a very wise man and whose name was Hassan Beg. Every word of his was either good advice or was as good as a proverb. One day in winter time the people were talking in his presence about...

Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Paul J. White and Joost Jongerden (eds.) Turkey's Alevi Enigma: A Comprehensive Overview. Leiden and London: Brill, 2003. 235 pp. Bibliographies at end of each contributor's monograph. Index of keywords and persons, 237-243. Turkey's Alevi...

America's Disposable Soldiers: The Real Truth Behind Gulf War Illness.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... America's Disposable Soldiers: The Real Truth Behind Gulf War Illness by Robert S. Miller. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Hikma Books. (Trafford Publishing), 2002. 258 pp. Appendices 259-79. Endnotes 280-306. Background 307-311. In...

Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self Expression.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self Expression by Mordechai Nisan. Second edition. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland & Company, 2002. ix + 310 pages. Notes 311-335. Index. Bibliography. "All of the people you...

Kurds, Arabs and Britons, the Memoir of Wallace Lyon in Iraq, 1918-44.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Kurds, Arabs and Britons, the Memoir of Wallace Lyon in Iraq, 1918-44, D. K. Fieldhouse, ed. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002). ISBN 1860646131.m. 238pp+xiv, maps, photographs. Needless to say, the publication of a minor British official's...

The International Journal of Kurdish Studies: a cumulative index, 1986-2002.
January 1, 2003... Published by the Kurdish Library since 1986, initially under the title Kurdish Times (through Volume 4), The International Journal of Kurdish Studies (ISSN 1073-6697), publishes research, analysis, and commentary on Kurdish history, culture,...

Kurdish life: a cumulative index (Fall 1991-Fall 2002).
January 1, 2003... Founded in 1991, Kurdish Life (ISSN 1861-8457) is a quarterly featuring research and analysis of contemporary issues and events in the Middle East in the context of U.S. foreign policy. Indexed by Index Islamicus at Cambridge University in...