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Rojava
A young Kurdish woman discovers a commitment to liberation, both personal and collective, through a harrowing journey in Rojava with armed freedom fighters. Jînçin is a young professor living in Berlin, born to a Yezedi father who years earlier was shunned and exiled for marrying outside his community, but who late in life makes the surprising decision to return to his homeland to defend his people and join the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) in their fight against the Islamic State. Searching for an understanding of why the father she adored would give his life for such a cause, the young woman journeys to the remote mountains of northeastern Syria, into the autonomous Kurdish region...
Nation and Novel
The emergence of nation-states in the Middle East during the early decades of the new 20th Century is more or less parallel to the emergence of a new narrative discourse, i.e. the novel. This almost simultaneous emergence raises a question as to whether there are some reciprocal relationships between the emergence of the nation-state and the novel. This study deals with the genre of the novel in Persian and Kurdish literature. It focuses on the rise of the novel and the factors which bring about its emergence and fuel its development.
A Fire in My Heart
A rich offering of traditional Kurdish tales, many never before offered in English, plus background information on the people, their culture, and history.
Kurdish Women’s Stories
"From all four parts of Kurdistan and across the diaspora, Kurdish women from different geographical, political, and educational backgrounds pick up a pen, reflect, and remember. Going beyond exoticising stereotypes and patriarchal representations, Kurdish Women's Stories gives 25 women authorial freedom to write about their own lived experiences. With contributors ranging from 20 to 70 years of age, we hear stories of imprisonment, exile, disappearances of loved ones, gender-based violence, uprisings, feminist activism, and armed resistance, including first-hand accounts of political moments from the 1960s to today. Conceived as part of Culture Project's self- writing program, this book is ...
The Age of Orphans
_______________ 'Bold and beautiful' - Financial Times 'Remarkable' - Independent 'Assured and endlessly creative' - Metro _______________ A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand alongside his villagers and fight for their land. Years later, he can only faintly recall the brutal murder of his father and cousins. Orphaned on the battlefield, conscripted and given a new name, Reza is married and has risen up the ranks to become Captain. But there are stirrings within his heart. He will soon be sent west to Kermanshah, to rule as the Shah's servant in the land of his birth.
Kurdistan +100
Kurdistan +100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Kurdish writers: might the Kurds have a country to call their own by the year 2046 - exactly a century after the last glimmer of independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or might the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new forms? Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every turn. In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a 183-year...
Five Sisters
Five Kurdish sisters raised in a traditional mountain village are forced from their home by war. Two join the guerilla forces fighting for their national identity. One of them survives to emigrate to America, where she helps to establish a successful business. Two others make traditional marriages, but meet very different fates. One achieves security and status as a third wife, but the other is caught up in the wealthy society based on the drug trade. She is trapped in a spate of violent deaths. The youngest sister becomes a doctor and returns to her home in the east to help her people. Throughout their lives, their Kurdish values of courage, family honor, and fidelity to one another sustain the sisters as they struggle to survive in a rapidly changing world.
The Kurdish Bike
'Courageous teachers wanted to rebuilt war-torn nation.'With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women ? at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself.'The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate ? an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions ? a novel of love, betrayal and redemption.
The Kurdish Connection
KURDISH FIGHTERS HOPE TO USE A CACHE OF NERVE GAS DISCOVERED IN IRAQ TO CONTINUE THEIR STRUGGLE TO FORM A UNITED KURDISTAN. Iraqi Kurdish scavengers offer the nerve gas to Kurdish rebels in Turkey and Syria to assist in their quest to create a unified homeland. Can the Special Operations Bedlam Alpha team prevent a disaster?
حكايات من التراث الكوردي
عرف تلك الأودية والمروج، ولاحظ بعض التغيرات، حيث لم يبقَ من تلك الأشجار الجميلة - التي كانت على ضفتي النهر من الصنوبر، والسرو، والأكاسيا، والكستناء، والبلوط - إلا القليل منها، قد أكل منها الزمن. وتظهر جليًا على أغصانها الملتوية، وجذوعها المتشعبة، والمهترئة، ورأى بعض الطرق البرية الجديدة التي لم يعهدها، وتناثرت آثار الطريق القديم الحجري، الذي كان يؤدي إلى ممرات الجبال حول القرية، ورأى جسرًا جديدًا على النهر الذي لم يبقَ بحجمه الكبير كما السابق. وطريق الجسر يؤدي إلى وسط القرية، أو البلدة. فلم تعد تلك القرية الصغيرة التي تحوي بضعة عشر بيتًا على ضفة النهر الكبير.
