By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part 11 Chapter Two: Khani on Mem û Zîn We have shown above (1.1) that writing Mem û Zîn in Kurdish was the result of a conscious stubborn determination to show the world that Kurdish language can be used…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
Young migrant worker dies in custody in Suli
KT News: On Friday 12 April, a 25 year old imprisoned migrant worker of Bangladeshi origin died after spending nearly three months in a Kurdish immigration centre in Sulaymani. According to local police spokesman, Inspector Sarkawt Ahmed, the man had entered the Kurdistan region to work without obtaining a visa and work permit and he…
Outdated medicine blinds elderly patients in Erbil
By Mufid Abdulla: A row is raging between the health minister, Dr Rekawt Hama Rashid, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the use of outdated medicines by an Erbil hospital which has blinded around 30 patients. The expired medicine was brought to the Kurdistan Region by a Turkish businessman who supplied it to a…
Kurdish law makers should tax individual higher earners
By Mufid Abdulla: This article flows from the recent local news that there are 30,000 dollar millionaires in the south of Kurdistan. First of all we must ask ourselves what Kurdistan produces to create such a high-calibre rich class, or what innovations has the region seen in the past decade to justify this? In the…
Three opposition parties say ‘no’ to Barzani
KT News: All three main opposition parties in the Kurdistan Region have agreed to refuse to support an extension to Masud Barzani’s presidency. This decision was made today at a summit meeting of the Gorran party, the Islamic Union and the Islamic Group. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe…
As a Kurd, how I remember Thatcher
By Mufid Abdulla: The news of the death on Monday of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher has made headlines around the world. Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and, from the time I came to the UK aged 23, I remember her rule vividly like today. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share…
London Kurdish Film Festival 2013: Announcement
By LKFF: London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF) is pleased to announce that we have moved to our new office located between Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, in the West 10 area, the heart of artistic London. This office will host our staff and volunteers as well as give us access to a wealth of resources…
Gorran says ‘no’ to extension for President Barzani
KT News and Comment: According to KT’s reliable sources, the Gorran movement has decided to reject a request from the Kurdistan Region’s two ruling parties that it support an extension to the presidency of Masud Barzani. According to the rules, President Barzani should stand down in July, because he will have served two terms, and new…
Peshmergas go unpaid
KT News and Comment: The Director of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga forces department has confirmed to Xendan website that Peshmerga salaries have been delayed for several weeks. This problem has occurred due to the shortage of money in Kurdistan’s banks: the crisis in the Suli area has spread to affect the whole region….
KDP and PUK seek Gorran support for elections delay
A delegation from the two ruling parties, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democrstic Party (KDP), has visited the headquarters of the Gorran movement. The main purpose for this visit was to ask the opposition party to agree to a delay to the Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections (due to be held before the end…
Notes on Kurdish issues
By Mariwan Pauls: Arab Iraqi Nationalism The Arabs’ (Iraqi or otherwise) hatred of us, the Kurds, is as alive as ever. I was listening to a few Iraqi commentators about Iraqi politics and their hatred and disapproval of anything Kurdish and Kurdish politics was shocking. (Or was it? Should we be surprised? Perhaps not!) It…
Reading ‘Mem u Zin’ as a tragic drama: London seminar
By Kurdish Book Club: Kurdish Book Club presents a Seminar on ‘Mem u Zin of Ahmadi Khani’ by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli Sunday 14th April 2013 From 15:00 -18:00 Birkbeck College, University of London, Lecture theatre B33*, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX As part of a series of seminars, the Kurdish Book Club is pleased to…
First oil from south of Kurdistan sold on international market
KT News: The first cargo of crude oil from an oil field in the south of Kurdistan has been sold on the international market. This has happened in defiance of the Iraq central government and against the background of its ongoing dispute with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Reuters quotes sources as saying that a…
PUK dithers over break with KDP
KT News and Comment: Recently the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) announced that it would stand independently from the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) in the general elections to the Kurdistan Region’s parliament that are meant to be held before the end of July. Today, however, Azad Jundiany a PUK politburo member and press spokesman, issued…
