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By Sabir Hasan: In the mid of the 20th century, Jamal Nebez said that ‘Translation is an Art’. Today, however, translation has become an independent scientific discipline after the translation scholar, James Holmes, laid the foundation of the Translation Studies represented in his now classic article ‘The Name and Nature of Translation Studies’, and presented…
Review by Mufid Abdulla: 13 years on and Öcalan is still in a Turkish prison on Emrali island. Öcalan’s ‘The Road Map to Negotiations’ is a collection of his writings that provided the basis for secret negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leadership from 2009 until they broke down in mid-2011….
By Solin Hacador: Spring has officially sprung, colours are in full bloom in Kurdistan. Vibrant colours and wonderful scents of the suburbs and Kurdish mountains are the perfect cure for Kurds. There is beauty amidst all the wild flowers, charming with their colours and pleasant smells. It is also a beautiful, relaxing and amazing way…
By Solin Hacador: Football is a passionate game. You can see this by the cheering fans on any given Sunday or Thursday night and so on. When there is an important football match on – such as Barça (Barcelona Football Team), Chelsea, Real Madrid, Milan etc. – football fans get excited and they either try to…
By Ahmet Abidin Ozbek: Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are – Jose Ortega y Gasset Part 1 (of 2) Among the most influential subjects in human society are religion, nationalism and our ideological differences. Unfortunately, these subjects are also reasons (you can say like poison) for humans…
By Razaw Abas Salihy: The reason we have human rights is to protect every individual in society, whether they’re part of a group or not. Individuals are very often part of two parallel groups within a society e.g. female and Muslim. Therefore, it would make no sense for rights to have a hierarchy of importance,…
By Ava Homa: Turkey brutally slaughtered Kurdish civilians once again, the world turned a blind eye once again, and the Kurds were left puzzled and agonized at the beginning of a New Year: a time that is supposed to bring refreshment. The good news is that we have Kurdish talents whose weapon is their passion…
By Kuvan Bamarny: Just by speaking about it, our hearts shatter and our smiles fade off our lips and our joy is cut short. It brings sorrow, dullness and depression in our lives. It drives all kinds of troubled thoughts through the mind. However, if it was not for you – ‘death’ – life would…
By Michael Rubin: In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important. Despite the claims of its ruling family, Iraqi Kurdistan’s greatest achievement is…
By Kuvan Bamarny: There have been a large number of theories and opinions about the meaning of life, from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the scientific, philosophical and religious conceptions developed by people from all over the world. Some say there is no real answer to…
By Sissy Danninger: Sissy Danninger has published a German translation of ‘Une Européenne au pays des Kurdes’ (‘A European Woman in the Land of the Kurds’), the memoir of Helene Krulich-Ghassemlou, widow of the Kurdish leader Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou who was assassinated by Iranian agents in Austria in 1989. The German version is available online….
By Dr F R Hilmi: All TV stations in the west gave full coverage to the announcement about a God Particle named The Higgs-Boson Particle after six physicists, probably after a drinking bout, suggested it exists, but when I looked for information I immediately got a link to The Jerusalem Post boasting about Israel’s great…
By Solin Hacador: The salwar is emerging as one of the most popular costumes in the fashion scene all over the world. Many western designers are taking inspiration from the Kurdish salwar or shalvar. Trends have a life of their own. It’s generally assumed by people in the know that the latest fashions are started…
Five poems by Dr Fereydun Rafiq Hilmi: Lord of the insane Descended in the dead of night. A dozen men with stripes of white They broke the fragile (Derga) down. They saw the screams but heard them not! Their heads were full of murderous plot. A woman clutching babes in arms. A granddad bewildered and alarmed….
By Dr Fereydun Rafiq Hilmi: Political use of evolution theory Evolution theory as it stands, like Freudianism and Machiavellianism, has been utilised for political dogma and ideology to control the minds of the public. Most believers in evolution blindly recite a few slogans such as “Survival of the fittest”, “Natural Selection”, “Missing links”, “Our ancestor apes”…
