Critical Crossroads for Kurds
“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.” —Cicero What is best for the Kurds: Islam or Nationalism? That question gnawed at me as I read, Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926, a scholarly book by Kamal Soleimani analyzing the...
And the Killing Continues…
September 18, 2016 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” –Mother Teresa Acclaimed Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran, who commands an astonishing two million Twitter fans on her cutting-edge microblogging universe, is her...
Richard Engel and the Kurds
August 21, 2016 Mr. Engel is chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He has become a household name in America regarding news from the Middle East. Thinking that I could learn something interesting from his new book, I ordered my copy, And Then All Hell Broke Loose:...Kurds and American Politics
August 14, 2016 When I first signed up for a Political Science class in college, I took a course on American Government. I wanted to know about the party of Abraham Lincoln and that of Harry Truman. But our cynical professor curtly tossed out an expression that I had...Kani Xulam
A native of Kurdistan, Kani Xulam is a commentator on the history and politics of Kurdistan, and advocates for the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination.
He is the director of the American Kurdish Information Network.
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