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By Dr. M. Koohzad Introduction: Nearly a decade ago in November of 2003, the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association was held in Anchorage, Alaska. A written version of some of the talks, later called the “Briefs”, were edited by Hakan Yavuz and Michael Gunter, two of the Association’s members and participants. Five…
By Solin Hacador: Radical protests in different parts of the world are emerging. A new way of doing politics is spreading throughout the world. The worlds’ politicians seem to have difficulty in understanding and managing the situation. It is quite interesting that these kinds of protests are functioning well without any leader or financial, material…
Interview by Aras Ahmed Mhamad: 1. Is photography an art or a job? How is photography connected to art? Since the invention of photography in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, all serious attempts towards photography were neither in terms of art nor a job; it was a pure chemical invention. Photography immediately became the most…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: Freedom and Justice for the Kurds Date: Friday, 28 June 2013, 6.30pm Place: Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A (closest tube Holborn) Chaired by Professor Bill Bowring, President of the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Panel Rights (ELDH); International Secretary, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers Bookmark…
By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: The common purpose of education is to guide students to the straight path and help them to make a distinction between light and darkness, right and wrong. It is to encourage students to embrace new thoughts and opinions, raise awareness, suspend superstition, support equality and oppose inequality. A teachers’ main responsibility,…
KT News and Comment: Veteran Kurd leader Mahmoud Osman has added his voice to the clamour condemning the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) following recent local council elections in Mosul and Makmur. Referring to claims of fraud, the Iraq parliament MP told Awene: “The way the KDP has acted in Mosul shows that they will…
By Dr. M. Koohzad Until the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the French ‘Third World’ approach to less developed countries fascinated many social scientists. One important feature of being on the list as a Third World country was rapid population growth of the cities due to rural-urban migration. This process was called ‘Ruralization’ of…
By Ramyar Hassani: On June 14, 2013 another presidential election was held in Iran and a new president elected. But this time, different to the last election in 2009, without any kind of riot, clashes, protest or objection. Lots of people, embellished with violet ribbons, even came out happily onto the streets on June 15,…
By Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami: A wishful article by Barçın Yinanç, entitled ‘Turkey’s Y generation will solve the Kurdish problem’ appeared in Hurriyet Daily, where she shared and analyzed her experience of the Gezi Park protests and hoped for a solution to the Kurdish issue by the ‘Y’ generation of Turkey protesting at Gezi park and…
By Shivan Fazil: Kurdish media are everywhere these days. There all sorts of media: Party media, government media, shadow media and free independent media. However, despite of their aims and objectives, there are few professional Kurdish media outlets. Professional media requires talented graduates from media institutes and schools, but so far, this is not the…
KT News: Dr Marianna Charountaki and Dr Yunis Al Lahwej organized a one day conference on 6 June 2013 under the auspices of Reading University, Department of Politics and International Relations, entitled The Middle East and the Arab Spring: Change, (in) Stability and (dis)Order. “The initial thought behind this organization was to bring together political figures and scholars…
By Solin Hacador: Today, I have seen a picture of three women from different ethnicities – Kurdish, Armenian and Turkish – taken in the Ottoman times of Turkey. I wonder whether the same kind of photo could be taken in the current Turkish society. Unfortunately, people’s understanding of friendship between different ethnicities in Turkish society…
By Amir Sharifi: The ferocious flames had all the signs of despair, they held up a plea, a dramatic protest against a cruel and tormenting reality plaguing the lives of many women in the Kurdish autonomous region in Northern Iraq. Awena Newspaper had vaguely identified the woman from Garmian, a young 33 year old whose…
KT News and Comment: Students complaining and bypassing instructors in the Kurdistan region are thought to be common problems in our academic institutions. Recently, however, the nature of this complaining has reached a new level at the American University of Iraq-Slemani (AUIS), where some students are very unhappy with the way their university is run…
By Kamal Chomani: Twitter @KamalChomani On June 13, while Premier Nechirvan Barzani was visiting Amedi, the people of Shiladze blocked the way and didn’t let him pass unless he sent a delegate to listen to their demands. Why was this small demonstration extremely important? Because it was not people of Slemani, where demonstrations have become…
