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We enter this world with certain predetermined facts—such as our sex, parents, and nationality. What we do with those facts can chart the course of our lives. A baby born to Kurdish parents in Turkey faces life-altering obstacles. A baby born to black couples in...
Turks everywhere solemnly honor November 10, 1938 and its anniversaries, as a day of mourning. That’s when the founder of their...
First a little bit of digression: When a Roman general conquered a new land; he was authorized to have a parade through the...
Long before the controversy of whether or not the freed Yezidi women of Islamic State should hold on to their children became a...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a severe case of Kurdophobia, but we may have to give the devil his due on this one....
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...
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...
