Long before the controversy of whether or not the freed Yezidi women of Islamic State should hold on to their children became a...
Should Freed Yezidi Women Keep Their Children?
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Kurdistan
Hollywood Superstar Shines A Spotlight On Jailed Kurdish Politician
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a severe case of Kurdophobia, but we may have to give the devil his due on this one....
One Kurd’s Incredible Audacity To Make Australia a Land of Liberty
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...
A Biopsy of Iraq
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.
Dying Kurdish Parliamentarian’s Last Wish
Somewhere in the bowels of a miserable Turkish prison, a duly elected Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament lies dying. She...
The Peshmerga and His Son
When International Mathematical Union awarded its 2018 Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize for Mathematicians) to one of our own,...
Glowing Bush Tributes Ignore Dark Genocide
Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991....