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...
One Kurd’s Incredible Audacity To Make Australia a Land of Liberty
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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.
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....
Greek Quest for Freedom and Its Lessons for Kurds
Many Kurds may not know who Lord Byron is. Those who do are richer for it; those who don’t, poorer. George Gordon Byron...
When Saddam Played the CIA Like a Drum
We don’t normally think of American novelist Ernest Hemingway and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the same breath. But...
A Memo to President-Elect Trump
November 17, 2016 You and the Kurds have a common foe. In Washington lingo, that is enough for both of us to become friends, and...
And the Killing Continues…
September 18, 2016 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” –Mother Teresa Acclaimed...