“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 2007
Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan
December 14th, 2007 by piling in East Kurdistan, History, North KurdistanAfter teddy-bear Muhammad, “terrorist bananas”
December 4th, 2007 by piling in North Kurdistan, Politic
Sudan has just released an English teacher who was under arrest after her pupils called “Muhammad” a teddy-bear belonging to the school. But in “Turkish” …
Yezidi speak Yezideren
December 3rd, 2007 by piling in Diaspora, Politic
Probably the funniest paper I ever read ; it could make jealous a Turkish negationnist and the “Sasanian” Jaf Movement……
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 …
Elvis is Titanic
November 9th, 2007 by piling in South Kurdistan
“…or a 26-year-old Rhodes Scholar’s poignant, funny, eye-opening story of teaching in Iraqi Kurdistan”.
” I have been in Arbil for three great celebrations.
In …
Voices of Kurdistan : Ali Merdan
November 6th, 2007 by piling in Culture, South Kurdistan
Ali Merdan borned in 1904 in Kirkuk, where he studied at first in a sufi khanqah, learning to recitate the Coran and …
Turkish Bravery in action
November 4th, 2007 by Administrator in Computer and Technology, PoliticThe website AkaKurdistan, which collected all kind of Kurdish memories by photographies has been hacked by a new sort of  “Turkish fighters”, comfortably …
“Not even a Turkmen cat…”
October 31st, 2007 by piling in Politic, South KurdistanTurkish Government sent a list to Iraq with the names of 150 Iraqi Kurdistanî, asking their arrest. Among them, there is Mahmud Othman, a member …
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 …