By KANI XULAM Aug 9, 2013 Trouble is ominously brewing in the once-quiet, northeastern Kurdish corner of Syria where violent terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusrah and Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have...
By KANI XULAM 7/7/2013 “None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” --Pearl S. Buck It was the gentle calm after the violent storm of 9/11. Americans had...
By KANI XULAM 6/23/2013 Let me tell you about a remarkable Kurdish gentleman. Better yet, let him tell you: “The year was 1960. I was ten years old. We had just moved to Mamak, Ankara. One day, I went out to play ball with kids in the...
By KANI XULAM 6/10/2013 For centuries, the old Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled half the world. Is it rising again? Does the “Arab Spring” naïvely nurture the tyrannical seeds of a Kurdish winter of nightmarish despair? The old Turkish...
By KANI XULAM 5/18/2013 “Beware, lest you lose the substance, By grasping at the shadow.” --Aesop If a car is white when it enters a tunnel—and comes out black on the other end, you can be pretty sure something happened inside the tunnel....
By KANI XULAM 5/12/2013 "He that once enters at a tyrant's door becomes a slave, though he were free before." Sophocles To be sure, Jeladet Ali Bedir Xan (hereafter Jeladet) was not the one who entered the tyrant’s door. His grandfather...