International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles from January 1 2004

International Journal of Kurdish Studies archives from January 1 2004

Tahir Beg Jaf (1875-1917).(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... THE KEEPER OF THE TAVERN Let the voice of the singers be heard around the keeper of the tavern, Let the lantern that disperses sorrows come in the night of separation! In the assembly of the companions and the fellows, And while the...

Mala-ye Jaziri (1570-1640).(Poetry)(By Mistake!)(In Praise of Mir Sharaf Khan Son of 'Abdal Khan)(Your Holy Beauty)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The great Sufi poet. A detailed survey of his life and poetry can be found in: Shakely, Farhad: "Aesthetic Aspects in The Poetry of Mala-ye Jaziri," The International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Vol. 16, Nos. 1 & 2, (2002) pp. 99-113. BY...

Malmisanij.(Poetry)(Rahmat Sherifi of Sardacht)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in Northern Kurdistan, he is a writer and an authority on the Zazaki dialect of Kurdish. He makes his home in Sweden. RAHMAT SHERIFI OF SARDACHT Khomeini's pasdarans killed A young supporter of CFE Called Rahmat Sherifi....

Kamal Mirawdeli.(Poetry)(I Am An Alienated Dream)(Come, Rescue Me From Myself!)(The Cul-De-Sac)(We Salute You Layla Zana!)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Kamal Mirawdeli was born in south Kurdistan in 1951. He studied for his BA in English at Baghdad University. He was the chair of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Suleimani before he left for exile in London in 1981. He obtained an MA in...

Anwar Kader Muhammad.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in Arbat, in the Sulaimani province of Kurdistan in 1948, he studied Kurdish language and literature at the University of Baghdad. He worked as a journalist and editor in Baghdad's Kurdish Academy of Science. Subsequently he earned a PhD...

Pishko Najmadin.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1953 in Halabja, Southern Kurdistan, he was involved at an early age in politics and joined the armed Kurdish liberation movement. He went into exile in Sweden in 1989. To date he has published three collections of poetry: Perennial,...

Zhila Husseini (1964-1996).(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in Saqgiz, Iranian Kurdistan, in 1964, she published only one poetry collection titled "The growth of love," in 1985. She died in a car accident on September 26, 1996. Another collection of poems, short stories and other writings was...

Abdulla Pashew.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1946 in Hawler, Southern Kurdistan, he studied at the Teachers Training Institute in Erbil. In 1973 he went to the former USSR where six years later, he earned a Master of Arts in pedagogy, specializing in foreign languages. In 1984 the...

Memories of Kurdistan.
January 1, 2004... It is morning and the pale sunlight of winter is filtering through my window. It is time to get up and put on the water for tea. As I swing my legs over the side of the bed my feet come to rest on my seventh birthday present from my father, two...

Farhad Shakely.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk, he began publishing poetry in 1968. He has written 20 books, including: Project of a secret coup, 1973; A river of light flowing from the red sun, 1977; Acclivity, 1981; String, 1985; I engrave your...

Ahmad Hardi.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1922 in Suleimani, Southern Kurdistan, his first and only book of poems, The Secret of Solitude, was published in 1957, and has been republished several times since then. He participated in the Kurdish liberation movement and settled in...

Latif Halmat.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1947 in Kifri in the province of Kirkuk, Southern Kurdistan, he is one of the most outstanding modern Kurdish poets of our time. He worked as a journalist during the 1970s and 1980s. He has published some twenty poetry books, among the...

Goran (1904-1962).(Poetry)(7 poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Goran was the most influential Kurdish of the Twentieth Century. Born Abdulla Sulaeiman in Halabja in 1904, he studied in Kirkuk. When his father and elder brother died he left school and worked as a teacher for several years in the Hawraman...

M. Emin Bozarslan.(Poetry)(Our Poetry is Written With Tears)(Don't Crush Our Flowers)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in North Kurdistan, Bozarslan has had a long and illustrious career as a writer, editor and poet in the forefront of the struggle for the recognition of Kurdish culture in Turkey and Kurdish national rights. In 1968 he wrote Alfabe, the...

Rojen Barnas.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1945 in the Diyarbakir region of Northern Kurdistan, he became active in Kurdish politics in the 1970s. He has made his home in Sweden since 1981. To date he has published the following collections: In the early dawn, Kurdistan 1979;...

Khabat Arif.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1959 in Sulaimani, Southern Kurdistan, he has published four poetry collections: The fallen leaves (Stockholm 1986), Hands (Stockholm 1987), Flowers of the Autumn (Stockholm 1993) and The Return of the Stars (Stockholm 1997). Since 1981...

Ahmed Arif.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... He was born in 1927 in Diyarbekir, the capital of North Kurdistan, one year after the Sheikh Saeed rebellion. By the time Arif began his studies at the Language and History Faculty of the University of Ankara, some 20 Kurdish revolts had been...

Barozh Akarayi.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1963 in Hawler, Southern Kurdistan, he spent several years of his life in Iran. He writes his poems in Kurdish and his short stories in Persian. Since 1991 he has made his home in Sweden. His publications include: To Die in the Mirror,...

Najiba Ahmad.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Born in 1954 in Kirkuk, Southern Kurdistan, she studied Kurdish language and literature at the University of Sulaimani and worked as a teacher for many years before she joined the Kurdish liberation movement. To date she has published the...

Misbah al-Diwan Adab (1859-1912).(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... AT DAWN At dawn, when flowers open and the breeze, smelling of ambergris, blows, How marvelous it is to get a goblet from the graceful beloved! How marvelous it is to meet secretly, with the beloved face to face, The singer and the...

Poetry.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... How I love these mountains Whose savage virgin beauty We have honored with our guns, These mountains, which have shielded us Like a mother's womb From the sword of Turks and Arabs And Persians, hanging over us. It is our fate,...

1958.(treaty assured Kurds the right of unity and independence)
January 1, 2004... ... A Treaty made more than a quarter of a century ago assured the Kurdish people the right of unity and independence; this Treaty was obtained by sustained efforts and heavy sacrifices. Even though this Treaty has never been executed, its...

Steer clear of Turkey.
January 1, 2004... I very recently returned from a journey through Turkey.... I have planned to push on eastward and visit the eastern half of Turkey. But it simply isn't done. When I asked for permission to go to Erzerum, it was quickly and flatly refused....

The same Turk.
January 1, 2004... One of the most common mistakes of those who have championed more warmly than wisely the successive nationalist regimes in Turkey is their assumption that Armenians and Greeks, by failing to cooperate with the new spirit of Young Turk...

1928: the case of Kurdistan against Turkey.
January 1, 2004... Much of the organized propaganda for Turkey--Old and New--as distinguished from amateurish prattle, reflects necessarily the varying interests of the propagandists. The Italian press but yesterday condemned vociferously Kemal's pretensions and...

1922: the heritage of the Near East.
January 1, 2004... The term "Near East" is an indefinite misnomer peculiar to the English-speaking world. Neither in politics nor in geography is there any particular unit to which the name applies. Geographically its boundaries are undefined. Every writer who...

1922: Great Britain and the Turks.
January 1, 2004... There is nothing that the Turk desires more ardently than to be friends with Great Britain. The price he asks is not exorbitant. It is no more than the heritage of every free-born nation. And the Turk is not a man to accept slavery or...

1919: Armenia resurrected.
January 1, 2004... The word, Armenia, to which the Armenians owe their name, is said to have been derived from the two words ar (land) and meni (mountain)--the land of mountains. Strictly speaking, however, Armenia is a plateau, with an election of about six...

1894: Kurds, Armenians, and Turks.
January 1, 2004... There is a tradition of a king in Persia who was so cruel that the gods, in order to punish him, sent two serpents to take up their abode, one in each shoulder, and prey upon his vitals, which, however, were renewed every day, so that life...

1889: inclosure in No. 331.
January 1, 2004... ERZEROUM, August 29, 1889 Sir, I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that I have returned from a tour in Kurdistan from Erzeroum to Ardish on Lake Van, Berghiri, Serai, Van, Shattak, Mukus, Khizan, Bitlis, Moush, Ginj, and...

1877: morality in politics.
January 1, 2004... In private life it is an accepted doctrine that "honesty is the best policy." Men do really believe it, and for the most part, act upon it. There are a great many things which we never think of doing, however immediately expedient they may seem...

Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, A.D. 1047-57.
January 1, 2004... The reign of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-55) was a watershed in the history of the Middle East. For the Christian nations of the "Orient," particularly Armenia, his reign proved a disastrous turning point, since it was...

Of milestones and millstones.(Kurdish history)
January 1, 2004... Today is the 11th of June in the year 2004. Only yesterday, in Turkey four Kurdish parliamentarians were released from prison pending retrial, having served ten of fifteen-year sentences for promoting "separatism." Hours earlier, for the first...