Jean Sasson’s Love in a Torn Land, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, explores the hardships and terror that Iraqi Kurds faced under Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime. The biographical story revolves around Joanna al-Askari Hussain, a young woman born of an Arab father and a Kurdish mother. Despite her upbringing in Baghdad, Joanna’s Kurdish roots and her love of Kurdish define her life’s course.
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Remembering Halapja, by Congressman Bob Filner
At The El Cajon Community Center San Diego, California On the Occasion of Twelfth Annual Memorial of the Massacre of Halapja...
Second Open Letter to the Turkish Ambassador
September 21, 1999 Ambassador Baki Ilkin Turkish Embassy 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 message sent via...
Stop Bombing Yugoslavia, June 5, 1999 Pentagon, Virginia
The Statement of Kani Xulam Pentagon, Virginia June 5, 1999 I want to start by expressing my own words of gratitude to the...
The 84th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Watertown, Massachusetts April 24, 1999 I want to start by thanking the members of the Commemoration Committee for putting...
Solidarity with the Kurds Night
“The Kurds on Our Watch” Solidarity with the Kurds Night at Concordia University Saturday April 10, 1999 I want to start by...
The Struggle for Freedom: Justice for the Kurds
Lafayette Park, Washington, DC March 21, 1999 Congressman Filner, our American Friends and fellow Kurds, I want to start by...
Dreaming of Beauty While Hungry and Cold
Investing in Peace Through Hunger and Cold By Kani Xulam Friday, November 28, 1997 Dear Friends and fellow Kurds, Forty days ago...