Download or read book My Life My Food My Kurdistan written by Chiman Zebari and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life, My Food, My Kurdistan is a compelling story of a woman who immigrated to the United States after Saddam Husseins tyranny and purging of the Kurds in the 1970s. As a young girl, Chiman was in an arranged marriage, yet ultimately she tells a story of personal strength, achievement, and autonomy. She shows us that even the most turbulent journeys are often simultaneously rewarding. I would like to take this moment to acknowledge this powerful story from a strong woman and good friend.
Download or read book My Father s Rifle written by Hiner Saleem and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Kurd comes of age in a war-torn land. This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad--in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker--as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of its Kurdish past and hopes for a free Kurdish future. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his father's old Czech rifle, his brother who is fighting in the mountains. But before he is even of school age, Azad has experienced strafing and bombing; he watches as friends and neighbors are assassinated; and he sees his father humiliated when he tries to get food for his starving family. Forced into a refugee camp in Iran for years, his family realizes, on their return, that Saddam Hussein and his regime are destroying the autonomy he had promised their people. In a burst of adolescent impatience, Azad briefly runs off to the mountains to fight for Kurdish liberty, like his brother. But Azad has also discovered art--drawings, poetry, film--and he senses that he must find his own way to advance the Kurdish cause. My Father's Rifle ends with his heartbreaking departure from his parents and flight across the Syrian border to freedom. Stunning in its unadorned intensity, My Father's Rifle is a moving portrait of a boy who embraces the land and culture he loves, even as he leaves them.
Download or read book Traditional Kurdish Food written by Ala Barzinji and published by Ala Barzinji. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Kurdish Food is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of Kurdish culinary heritage available in book form in English. Here you will find unique insights into the diverse cuisine and culinary customs of regional Kurdistan that have never been presented in this way. This book reveals to the world new tasty and resourceful recipes from this ancient land. It is the key that unlocks a secret door behind which lies the origins of so many dishes that we love and take for granted today. Fresh ingredients and liberal use of spices and herbs are intrinsic to these recipes. Some of the recipe names may seem familiar - kabab, paqlawa- albeit delivered with a distinctly Kurdish flavour; others will be delightfully new. Each recipe is illustrated with a mouth-watering colour photograph.
Download or read book My Father s Paradise written by Ariel Sabar and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.
Download or read book A Fire in My Heart written by Mohammed M. A. Ahmed and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich offering of traditional Kurdish tales, many never before offered in English, plus background information on the people, their culture, and history.
Download or read book The Kurdish Bike written by Alesa Lightbourne and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Courageous teachers wanted to rebuilt war-torn nation.'With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women ? at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself.'The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate ? an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions ? a novel of love, betrayal and redemption.
Download or read book Day of Honey written by Annia Ciezadlo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2011.
Download or read book Kurdistan on the Global Stage written by Diane E. King and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’thist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The Region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to the rest of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan’s towns and villages, King explores the ways that residents connect socially, particularly through patron-client relationships and as people belonging to gendered categories. She emphasizes that patrilineages (male ancestral lines) seem well adapted to the Middle Eastern modern stage and viceversa. The idea of patrilineal descent influences the meaning of refuge-seeking and migration as well as how identity and place are understood, how women and men interact, and how “politicking” is conducted. In the new Kurdistan, old values may be maintained, reformulated, or questioned. King offers a sensitive interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity. Honor killings still occur when males believe their female relatives have dishonored their families, and female genital cutting endures. Yet, this is a region where modern technology has spread and seemingly everyone has a mobile phone. Households may have a startling combination of illiterate older women and educated young women. New ideas about citizenship coexist with older forms of patronage. King is one of the very few scholars who conducted research in Iraq under extremely difficult conditions during the Saddam Hussein regime. How she was able to work in the midst of danger and in the wake of genocide is woven throughout the stories she tells. Kurdistan on the Global Stage serves as a lesson in field research as well as a valuable ethnography.
Download or read book Cooking in Iran written by Najmieh Batmanglij and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking" Esteemed American chef. Award-winning cookbook author. Persian cooking instructor. Iranian immigrant. Storyteller. Mother of two acclaimed sons - Zal, a filmmaker; Rostam, a musician. Born in the middle of the 20th century in Tehran, Iran. Lives in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. Consults with restaurants around the world. Member of Les Dames d'Escoffier.
Download or read book Perfect Dream written by Dr. Kamal Bewar and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kurdish boy grows up in a peaceful village in Kurdistan, Iraq. His life in his small village with a large family in their two-room mud brick home is happy and peaceful. He experiences all the joys, triumphs, and activities of a young boy growing up in the country, complete with sheep, dogs, family farming, and broken bicycles. Unfortunately, his life is systematically disrupted by military raids, the deaths of loved ones, economic government oppression, and violent prejudice against his people. These trials ignite a spark of passion for finding out the true history of his people as he strives for the peace, security, and hope that he held as a child. The new knowledge fuels the flames and drives him to assist in clandestine missions against the Iraqi Army. With new vigor, the flame bursts into a bonfire in his soul as he takes the next step to join the secret resistance forces of Kurdistan and becomes a Peshmerga, or “one who stands in front of death.” He spends years resisting government oppression, sometimes winning but always walking (sometimes running). Through captures, betrayals, surrenders, prisons, and escapes, he continued to hold onto his dream that he would find the peace and opportunity that he had enjoyed as a boy. This was the one bright dream that kept his feet moving and his heart pumping when all else seemed hopeless. His years of resisting the oppression of his people in search of the dream that he wanted for himself, his family, and all the people of Kurdistan are an inspiration to those who feel that they are just one person fighting against giants. His story stands as a testimony of what happens when you believe you have a mission in life and you never give up hope.
Download or read book Black Wind from the Kurdish Hills written by Hama Dostan and published by Janus Publishing Company Lim. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poignant tale follows the lives of three friends—Ahmad, Kadir, and Raza—growing up in Halabja, Iraq, as they struggle to survive in the tumultuous region also known as Kurdistan. Narrated by members of Kadir’s family, this intimate portrait details the boys’ move from a carefree childhood in a Kurdish community in the 1960s to a period of domestic unrest and fear, first with the onset of the Peshmerga war, and later with the rise of Saddam Hussein. As the years pass, these boyhood friends are forced to face the tragedies of war and are eventually drawn into the conflict that, by virtue of their birth, they cannot escape.
Download or read book Love In A Torn Land written by Jean Sasson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.
Download or read book The Miracle of the Kurds written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one American's Quixote-like vision for Kurdistan following Saddam's barbarous attacks of the early 1990s - encouraging the Kurds to build one of the most remarkable, hopeful, and prosperous cultures in not just the Middle East but the world.
Download or read book Oriental Odyssey Travel adventures in Kurdistan written by Karl May and published by Nemsi Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Miracle of the Kurds written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield was witness to much of the modern history of the Kurds. In this riveting account, Mansfield movingly tells the stories of the people who have fashioned one of the greatest economic and cultural resurrections in human history. They are the largest people group in the world without a homeland of their own. Despised and persecuted the world over, they even call themselves "the people without a friend." Saddam Hussein tried to wipe them from the face of the earth, killing several hundred thousand of them in the attempt. Their sufferings have become legend. They are the Kurds, descendants of the ancient Medes best known today from the pages of the Bible -- inhabitants of what the world now calls Northern Iraq. Yet today the Kurds are rebuilding so brilliantly from war and oppression that even their enemies call it "a miracle." Six star hotels stand where bombs once fell, shopping malls and gleaming schools rise where massacres once occurred. National Geographic and Conde Nast have listed modern "Kurdistan" as a "must-see" tourist destination.
Download or read book Call Sign Chopper written by Chris Nott and published by StoryUp Media. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brace yourself for the electrifying sequel to, 'Call Sign Chopper'! In book 1, Chris's journey takes him from street copper, military reservist to bouncer to bodyguarding the President of Haiti. In 'Call Sign Chopper-The Sequel', we join Chris in his “adventure years”; which starts in Kenya after a chance encounter with two veterinary surgeons. A short time later an unexpected twist lands him in war-torn Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. After a crazy few years, Chris returns to the UK and works providing security at music festivals and nightclubs while tackling international maritime missions. But the beat of voodoo drums beckons once more, leading to heart-pounding, life-threatening escapades back in Haiti. 15 months later, we join Chris on his anti-piracy missions in the Indian Ocean, facing off against ruthless Somali pirates. His adventures take a humanitarian turn with work in Libya, France, grim mortuary work in post-tsunami Thailand; the Grenfell Tower disaster in London and building eco-friendly homes for AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe. Once again, we find Chris back in the UK working security for various events and music festivals. Now in his mid-60s, and due to one (surprising) close encounter, he realises his adventures have reached an end... or have they? Dive into 'Call Sign Chopper-The Sequel' TODAY for the electrifying story!
Download or read book 1 000 Jewish Recipes written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
