A web site that seems to be very interesting, unfortunaltely only in Hebrew about Kurdistanî jews : we could take pleasure all the same …
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Ayse San
February 5th, 2007 by piling in Culture, North Kurdistan, Uncategorized
Ayse San was one of the greatest Kurdish dengbêj. She borned in 1938 in Amid and died in 1996 in Izmir. I translate here the …
Baden-Powell and Jules Verne in Kurdistan
July 5th, 2006 by piling in Culture, South Kurdistan
Surprisingly Baden-Powell is honoured in stamps of Kurdistan. Well, I was not awared that Brittons had let so good memories in Southern Kurdistan, but his …
World Cup Games , Kurdistan 1 , Saudi Arabia 0
June 16th, 2006 by Dyaoko in Culture, Diaspora
in these days , every where you go people are busy with watching world cup games and you usauly see peopel shout in happines or …
The Golden House of Samarkand
May 2nd, 2006 by piling in Culture, History, North KurdistanIn “The Golden House of Samarkand” Corto Maltese goes through Anatolia in 1920s, during the War of Independance between Kurdish-Turkish-Russian-Armenians troops. Like in “Ethiopiques” and …
Al-Maqamat
April 9th, 2006 by piling in CultureAl-Maqamat is one of the most famous books of Arab literature during the Middle-Age. It tales the funny adventures of a tricky traveler, a genius …
Nasr ed-Dîn Hoja taught Kurdish
April 5th, 2006 by piling in Culture, Uncategorized
Nasr ed-Din Hoja’s sayings are one of the best tales’ book in the tradition of crazy saints”. They are also very representative of Turkish humour, …
Leyla’s comments about Mohammad caricatures
February 14th, 2006 by Dyaoko in Culture, PoliticExactly 16 years ago, on February 14, 1989, a fatwa requiring Salman Rushdie’s execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of …
Who are the Yezidis ?
February 1st, 2006 by piling in Culture, History, South KurdistanMuch is said about Yezidis, from hostile groups to pro-Aryanist Kurdish nationalists, and all is wrong. So I think it is useful to make a …
Dersim and Munzur Valley
January 30th, 2006 by piling in Culture, History, North Kurdistan
On February 8th in the Kurdish Institute of Paris, there will be an exhibition of Munzur Valley and Dersim pictures, from Northern Kurdistan. Though I …