“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 …
Archive for the ‘East Kurdistan’ Category
Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan
December 14th, 2007 by piling in East Kurdistan, History, North KurdistanNush-i Jan I. The Major Buildings of the Median Settlement
December 3rd, 2007 by piling in East Kurdistan, History
Nush-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, …
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, …
Folk Music of Iran : Fars and Luristan
October 14th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Ibn Hawqal, on Xth century, described Luristan and Fars as the main settling region of Kurds, Lurs and Beluches, which he …
Antoin Sevruguin’s Iran photographs
October 5th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
“Antoin Sevruguin (late 1830s-1933) was a celebrated photographer of late-nineteenth-century Iran. Sevruguin had two lifelong obsessions. The first was a cherished desire to record Iran …
English-Kurdish dictionnary
October 2nd, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan, South Kurdistan
“Book Description
Acclaimed by Kurdish Academics, the Wallenberg, Kurdish English – English Kurdish Sorani dictionary has led the way in bilingual lexicography. The first ever …
Shahram Nazeri awarded by France
September 29th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Today, at the Théâtre de la Ville of Paris, Shahram Nazeri gives a concert with Daryush Talai. At this occasion he wil receive in public …
The glory of Pur-e Pesheng
May 1st, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan, History
Shams ad-Dîn Pashang ibn Yûssuf Shâh, a prince of the Greater Lurs Fadlaway dynasty, was atabeg of Luristan from 1356 to 1389 or 757-792 H. …
Mihemed Mamli
March 25th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Borned in 1925 and died in 1999 in Mahabad, Mihemed Mamli was both a very popular singer in Southern and Eastern …