I recently attended a rally in Washington, DC to express my support for the Kurdish referendum in Kurdistan/Iraq. We enjoyed short speeches, pleasant music and joined hands in large circular dances to celebrate the Kurdish vote on...
From all the international hysteria, you would think that Kurds—one of the most brutally oppressed people on earth—were trying to unleash the deadly Bubonic Plague upon humanity. We aren’t—not even a common cold, barely a sneeze. We are...
First our commonalities: we are both the children of the soil. Jews fondly call the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) their homeland; we reserve the same affection for Kurdistan, the land of our ancestors. Jews ruled their homeland for...
The Poles have a state of their own now, but were stateless, like us Kurds, for 123 years at one time. How they got their homeland back can help Kurds get ours. Unlike us, the Poles once had a kingdom, but lost it to Germans, Austrians...
Many Kurds may not know who Lord Byron is. Those who do are richer for it; those who don’t, poorer. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), the great English poet, was born with a clubfoot but towered tall in his valiant defense of freedom....
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”—Blaise Pascal When French philosopher Pascal (1623-1662) said that, he didn’t have Algeria in mind—but he could well have. An Algerian joke in the 1990s...