From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. For his first 31 years Sabar considered his father, Yona, an embarrassing anachronism. Ours was a …
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
My Father’s Paradise
September 18th, 2008 by Administrator in Culture, East Kurdistan, History, South Kurdistan, Uncategorized, West KurdistanXani’s classroom : El Qitt’etu fî behrii recez-il mettwîyy-îl mexbûn
January 16th, 2008 by piling in Culture, History, North Kurdistan
As I had to write about the “Nûbar”, I’ve found funny to translate it and even to transform firstly in a French-Kurdish kexicon, and then …
Xani’s classroom : El Qita’tu fi behri hezec-il mekfuuf
January 15th, 2008 by piling in Culture, History, North Kurdistan
Each section of the “Nûbar” is rhymed and is also organized according to a meter of classical prosody, which belongs to former Arab poetry. The …
Xanî’s Classroom
January 14th, 2008 by piling in Culture, History, North Kurdistan
“In the name of God the Beneficient, the Merciful :
The source of any science is in the Omniscient
Prayers, praising, thanksgiving
Are for the …
Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan
December 14th, 2007 by piling in East Kurdistan, History, North Kurdistan
“The first Americans to work with the people of the Middle-East were neither spies nor soldiers. They were, in fact, teachers, printers, and missionaries, of …
Nush-i Jan I. The Major Buildings of the Median Settlement
December 3rd, 2007 by piling in East Kurdistan, HistoryNush-i Jan I. The Major Buildings of the Median Settlement
Summary:
This first fascicule of the Final Report on the excavations at Tepe Nush-i Jan, …
Bektashi, Kizil Bash, Yezidi and Yarsân’s cosmogonic traditions
November 28th, 2007 by piling in Culture, History
“What elements of the system of these heterodox movements/communities can be treated as tryuly syncretistic ? One needs to take into account, moreover, the fluidity …
Shayest and Na-Shayest
October 26th, 2007 by piling in History
A few texts of ancient avestic religion were saved from fire of only dammaged by time and persecution… The remained books have been copied probably …
Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
October 16th, 2007 by piling in Diaspora, East Kurdistan, History, North Kurdistan, Politic, South Kurdistan, West Kurdistan
“The Kurds, who number some 25 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, …
New : Jews, Kurds and tribes
October 9th, 2007 by piling in History, South Kurdistan
Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival (Jewish Identities in a Changing World) by Mordechai Zaken.
A interesting and an …