To be fair to him, this was not what Behrouz Boochani wanted to do when he was growing up in Kurdistan, Iran. But that is pretty much what he is doing right now imprisoned as he is on Manus Island—about 2,000 miles away from the land of...
If Kurds are your business and their neighbors your concerns, this book is your meat. What some Kurds do in several of his stories will infuriate you. You won’t be wrong to call them the incipient cancer cells of Kurdistan.
The first Saturday of 2019 didn’t start well for Rahaf al-Qanun, the Saudi teen, who wanted to make a dash for freedom in Australia via Thailand. The forces of “order” blocked her path in the Thai capital. On the second Saturday, January...
Somewhere in the bowels of a miserable Turkish prison, a duly elected Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament lies dying. She has been on a hunger strike for more than two months now in Amed, Kurdistan, Turkey. Leyla Guven may be the...
When International Mathematical Union awarded its 2018 Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize for Mathematicians) to one of our own, Chaucer Birkar, we were all elated. Our joy was doubled when Mr. Birkar proclaimed, “I'm hoping this news will put...
Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991. The first exploded when the Iraqi Army was routed from Kuwait. In the second, millions of Kurds abandoned their...