By KANI XULAM December and bad news come together in Turkey. Two years ago, it was the Turkish planes that bombed a caravan of Kurdish villagers in the mountains of Kurdistan. 34 innocent Kurds met their violent end. In fact, when the...
By Kani Xulam “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” -- Elie Wiesel, Nazi concentration camp survivor I wish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk had clutched those arresting words of someone who had suffered unspeakable...
By KANI XULAM “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” --William Shakespeare, King Lear That quotation from the Great Bard came to mind while watching a historic meeting in my Kurdish hometown of Amed...
World Affairs Council Reading, Pennsylvania Kani Xulam November 13, 2013 Our world has exploded with blazing conflicts for thousands of years. Let me talk with you about two of them. Nearly 50 years ago, President Johnson faced a major...
By KANI XULAM Unlike most of us, Lukman Ahmad loves being in jail. In fact, he loves it so much he voluntarily stays in it every day! Well, he’s not really imprisoned—as we think of prisons—but he is actually in a jail every day. Lukman...
By KANI XULAM This is the heart-tugging story of a nearly-lost email, a lost love and lost father—and a daughter’s conscientious search for her lost Kurdish father, whose picture she clutches to her heart while sleeping. The introductory...