Download or read book The Legend of Newroz written by Murat Baran and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual fairy tale in ENGLISH - Kurdish (Sorani) for children from 6 years. (All contents are romanized) The Legend of Newroz is one of the most important stories of the Kurdish community. In order to preserve and spread this beautiful story, it is composed bilingually in this book. Each section is analogously translated into Sorani. As each language uses different expressions, we thus stay closer to the respective language culture. The book is perfectly suited for bilingual education as well as for practising Sorani skills. The content is suitable for children from the age of 6. The fairy tale has 14 colourful illustrations. Çîrokî dûzimanî be înglîzî - kurdî. Dastanî Newroz yekêk le çîroke here giringekanî komellgey kurdî ye. Bo ewey em çîroke xoşe parêziraw bêt û billaw bibêtewe, be dû ziman nûsirawetewe. Her beşêkî be gwêrey ramanî înglîzî wergêrrdirawe. Çunke hemû zimanêk xawendî zimangoy xoyetî, boye hewllmanda wergêrraynî le dû zimanî nêzîk da bibînîn le ruwî ferhengewe. Em pertûke detiwanêt be asanî bo fêrkarî dûzimanî, herweha bo pêşxistinî kurdî bekaribihênrêt. Nawerrokî yem pertûke bo mindallanî seruwî 6 sallewe guncaw e. Lem perrtûke da 14 wêney rengîn heye. for more: www.serkeftin.com
Download or read book Seven Special Somethings A Nowruz Story written by Adib Khorram and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book celebrating Persian New Year by award-winning author Adib Khorram Kian can't wait for Persian New Year! His family has already made a haft-seen, and Kian's baba and maman told him that all the things on it start with S and will bring them joy in the new year. Kian wonders if he could add just one more S, to make his family even happier. Hmm . . . Sonny the cat's name starts with S--but Sonny knocks the whole table over! Can Kian find seven special somethings to make a new haft seen before his family arrives for their Nowruz celebration?
Download or read book Children of the Sun Bearers of Light written by Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated Second Edition of a children's adaptation of the Kurdish Newroz Saga about Kawa the Blacksmith and featuring the origin of Newroz Mythology. "Slowly, the snow giant began to melt. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a beam of light and the giant halo that was coming from Kawa and his friends. The giant thought, It is true that light always wins over darkness, and this time it is in the form of love, friendship and unity. He thought to himself. When people stand together in times of trouble, even the most powerful creatures like me won't be able to survive and spread fear. The giant knew his time had come to an end. As long as the people stood with each other, he would not be successful in stopping spring. Although he would be sure to try again next year" Newroz is probably the most important Kurdish national holiday, celebrated on March 21st, during the Spring Equinox. It is an ancient indo-iranian celebration based in Zoroastrianism that is surrounded by many diverse tales and legends, often around a blacksmith called Kawa. For Kurds, Kawa and Newroz represent the ultimate courage and resilience of people towards tyranny and cold harsh winters. In order to create a child friendly version of the legend surrounding Kawa the Blacksmith and the origins of Newroz for her two children in Diaspora, the author developed this adaptation some years ago. Following the publication of another adaptation of an old Kurdish epos "Mem u Zin" by Ahmede Khani, with the title: Holy Dolma and Honey Pie - Of Friendships and Miracles. The author was born in exile in Germany and was stateless until the age of 12. Language was always more than just a means of communication- it was an identity, heritage and home. Her parents, who were Kurdish university students in Europe's 60s, became political refugees due to being part of the resistance movement against the ruthless Baathist regime in Iraq, that persecuted Kurds, culminating in several genocides. Nevertheless, despite being in exile, they managed to instil in their children a deep love for their mother tongue and give a glimpse in the rich traditions of Kurdish oral story telling, history and culture. Having had limited access to Kurdish children books, due to years of linguistic, cultural and ethnic persecution, Peri-Khan committed herself to continue her people's tradition of generational storytelling to safeguard national heritage. Always in the back of her mind, second and third generations of parents and children in diaspora.
Download or read book The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey written by Cengiz Gunes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish nationalism, it develops a new empirical dimension to the study of the Kurds in Turkey. Cengiz Gunes applies an innovative theoretical approach to the analysis of an impressively large volume of primary sources and data drawn from books and magazines published by Kurdish activists, political parties and groups. The analysis focuses on the specific demands articulated by the Kurdish national movement and looks at Kurdish nationalism at a specific level by disaggregating the nationalist discourse, showing variations over time and across different Kurdish nationalist organisations. Situating contemporary Kurdish political identity and its political manifestations within a historical framework, the author examines the historical and structural conditions that gave rise to it and influenced its evolution since the 1960s. The analysis also encompasses an account of the organisational growth and evolution of the Kurdish national movement, including the political parties and groups that were active in the period. Bringing the study of the organisational development and growth of the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey up to date, this book will be an important reference for students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, social movements, nationalism and conflict.
Download or read book The Kurdish Question in Turkey written by Cengiz Gunes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict has cost the lives of 45,000 people, including soldiers, guerrillas and civilians. The complex issue of the Kurdish Question in Turkey is subject to comprehensive examination in this book. This interdisciplinary edited volume brings together chapters by social theorists, political scientists, social anthropologists, sociologists, legal theorists and ethnomusicologists to provide new perspectives on this internationally significant issue. It elaborates on the complexity of the Kurdish question and examines the subject matter from a number of innovative angles. Considering historical, theoretical and political aspects of the Kurdish question in depth and raising issues that have not been discussed sufficiently in existing literature, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism and Conflict, Turkish Politics and Middle Eastern politics more broadly.
Download or read book Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria written by Gabriele Mueller and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions of globalization and the effects of societal and economic change on the individual. This book explores this trend by investigating different thematic and aesthetic strategies and alternative methods of film production and distribution. Functioning both as a product and as an agent of globalizing processes, this new cinema mediates and influences important political and social debates. The contributors illuminate these processes through their analyses of cinema’s intervention in discourses on such concepts as “national cinema,” the effects of globalization on social mobility, and the emergence of a “global culture.” The essays illustrate the variety and inventiveness of contemporary Austrian and German filmmaking and highlight the complicated interdependencies between global developments and local specificities. They confirm a broader trend toward a more complex, critical, and formally diverse cinematic scene. This book offers insights into the strategies employed by German and Austrian filmmakers to position themselves between the commercial pressures of the film industry and the desire to mediate or even attempt to affect social change. It will be of interest to scholars in film studies, cultural studies, and European studies.
Download or read book The Kurdish Question Revisited written by Gareth Stansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. The contributors to The Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable phenomenon is being transformed amid the new political realities of the Middle East.
Download or read book The Story of Spring and Norooz written by Nazanin Mirsadeghi and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in English (a Persian/Farsi edition of this book is also available) -- A new version of Norooz story: The story of a girl named "Bahar" who lives in the sky and spends the entire year sleeping in her comfy bed, except for the last day of winter when she wakes up and ..... For more information about BAHAR BOOKS, visit: www.baharbooks.com
Download or read book Kurdish Nationalism on Stage written by Mari R. Rostami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation. It promoted literacy, education and women's rights and became one of the most visible forms of Kurdish cultural nationalism by exploring folklore, myths, legends and local history and by celebrating heroes of the past. As time went on, by staging anti-feudalist and anti-monarchist plays, theatre became engaged in representing and legitimising the wider political movement in Iraq that ultimately led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958. Between 1975-1991, even under strict censorship during the Baath rule, Kurdish theatre continued to promote Kurdish nationalism and resistance through the use of Kurdish folk culture and literature. This book is based on dramatic texts from the period, interviews with Kurdish theatre artists, Kurdish theatre histories, historical documents, and journalistic accounts. It illustrates the ways in which theatre participated in the Kurdish national struggle and how it responded to political changes in different historical periods. It is the first book dedicated to Kurdish theatre and complements the latest research that examines theatre in its wider socio-political context.
Download or read book Seven Special Somethings A Nowruz Story written by Adib Khorram and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book celebrating Persian New Year by award-winning author Adib Khorram Kian can't wait for Persian New Year! His family has already made a haft-seen, and Kian's baba and maman told him that all the things on it start with S and will bring them joy in the new year. Kian wonders if he could add just one more S, to make his family even happier. Hmm . . . Sonny the cat's name starts with S--but Sonny knocks the whole table over! Can Kian find seven special somethings to make a new haft seen before his family arrives for their Nowruz celebration?
Download or read book Imagining Kurdistan written by Özlem Belçim Galip and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the First Gulf War to the present upheaval in Syria, the Kurdish question has been a crucial issue within the Middle East region and in international politics. Spread across several countries, the Kurds constitute the largest stateless nation in the world. In this context, a striking question arises: how are Kurdish identity and the idea of the homeland - both as a symbol and as territorial space - constructed in writings from Turkish Kurdistan and its diaspora? Through a comparative analysis of Kurdish writing, Ozlem Galip here provides the first comprehensive look at modern Kurdish literature. Drawing on theories of space and collective memory and exploring the use of the historical past and personal memories in the literature of stateless nations, this book analyses the construction of the imaginary homeland and the concept of Kurdish identity.
Download or read book Contemporary Turkey in Conflict written by Tahir Abbas and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed. He explores how issues of political trust, social capital and intolerance towards minorities have characterised Turkey in the early years of the 21st-century. He shows how a radical neoliberal economic and conservative outlook has materialised, leading to a clash over the religious, political and cultural direction of Turkey. These conflicts are defining the future of the nation.
Download or read book Kurds in Erdogan s Turkey written by William Gourlay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics - but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and DiyarbakA r, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Within the context of Turkey's troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.
Download or read book Kurdish in Love written by Qendîl Şeyxbizînî and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SORANI translation in both Latin & Arabic letters To all those who fell "Kurdish in love"...In our own language we have a variety of affectionate expressions. But these words are colored by our culture and usually do not reach non-native speakers in the way we feel them. Learning the language of a loved one gives us the opportunity to convey deeper feelings. This book will give you an insight into the love language and culture of the Kurds. In addition, some nicknames, expressions of feelings, wishes and questions that are common in English are translated. This book is not only intended to fill a gap left by most language books and courses, but above all it aims to contribute to the communication and understanding between English-Kurdish couples. Content Love & Appreciation Nicknames Relationship status Feelings Happiness & Excitement - ...at a distance Upset/Shock - Anger Questions ...at the beginning ...when things get more serious Wishes & Desires Compliments Personality & Skills - Looks - Gratitude Kurdish Love - Wedding tradition - Nicknames - Expressions of Affection, Love & Heartache Quotes about Love Vocabulary
Download or read book The Kurdish Women s Freedom Movement written by Isabel Käser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter, and the movement's own narrative of the 'free woman', Isabel Käser looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict and resistance.
Download or read book The Kurds in Erdogan s Turkey written by William Gourlay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics - but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and DiyarbakA r, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Within the context of Turkey's troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Kurds written by Hamit Bozarslan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
