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By Yasin Aziz: When I heard Mandela died The symbol of freedom, the light of Hope has really subsided? When I heard Nelson Mandela died for his enormous soul I uncontrollably cried Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Interview with Pishtiwan Faraj, PhD Candidate: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad In part 2 of the interview, Pishtiwan thinks that reading novels can uplift you and that an imaginative person is a productive person. He claims that a novel can inspire a revolution. He also mentions some differences between the education systems in the east…
By Ausama Anwar: Post-Apocalyptic and Science-Fiction movies have always been my favorite, especially so that I can get ideas to write about and discuss, and also criticize a few of them. I’ve watched many movies where I know the genre and the plot basics. I can’t judge a movie for not having a real story,…
Interview with Goran Sabah (Novelist and PhD Student): Interviewed By Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: What is the most notable change in Kurdish society in recent years? GS: It depends on how you define the word “recent” here. Do we mean the last five, eight or ten years? I’d go for the last five years. I…
By LKFF: Hosting three internationally renowned Kurdish filmmakers and a range of awarded films, the London Kurdish Film Festival is delighted to announce its 8th Festival from 15th to 24th November 2013. This year’s opening gala is crowned with the UK premiere of ‘Before Snowfall’, a thought-provoking and poignant film about honour killing, by the…
Book Review by Ava Homa: Review of Mary Jo Leddy’s ‘Our Friendly Local Terrorist’ Suleyman Govan is a Kurd from Dersim who arrives in Canada in 1991. Dersim is the region of Seyit Riza, the Kurdish leader who in 1937 took the noose from his executioners and placed it on his own neck, denying the…
By Raber Younis Aziz: I watched a short video footage of Ahmet Kaya, the great Kurdish artist who was honored in 1999 for his art by the Magazine Journalists Association in Turkey. In the footage, Kaya appears on stage as he receives the award and says, “I am receiving this award on behalf of everyone…
By Yasin Aziz: Preface When Iraq was founded by the British Empire in the 1920s and handed to the Saudi tribal Arabs, it was promised that Kurds’ cultural rights would be respected, that they would enjoy a kind of autonomy and their local rulers would come from among themselves to administer their affairs. As the…
Interview with Muhammad Fatih Ghareeb: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: How would you define translation? What’s the importance of translation in this commercial and technological world? MF: There are various definitions. Most of them are known to students of translation and translators. Here, I would like to define it from a day-to-day life of…
An Interview with Soran Fadhil Ali: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad Part -1- AAM: How would you define literary criticism? What is the significance of this movement for the genre of literature? SFA: Literary criticism is a disciplined activity that attempts to describe, study, analyze, justify, interpret, and evaluate works of art. This discipline tries…
By Ausama Anwar: The title seems to be very grand, mixing such important topics in one article. So I start by explaining the title and the concept of this article. Reality: It’s what we live in, it’s what we can’t escape, Even if we try, by getting into dreams and Imagination, we are still in…
Interview with Pishtiwan Faraj, PhD Candidate: Interviewed By Aras Ahmed Mhamad Part 1 AAM: What is your definition of the novel? What is the significance of this genre? PF: Well, my definition is that a novel is usually a long and complex fictional story that tells an imaginative human experience through a sequence of events…
By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: How many months have 28 days and how many of each species did Moses take into the Ark? Take a wild guess! How many times have you told your friends or parents ”You did not make yourself clear?”, ”why didn’t you tell me that”, ”if only you’d told me”, ” you…
Interview with Ata Omer Salih: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: How would you define translation? What’s the importance of translation in this commercial and technological world? AOS: Translation can accept many different definitions according to the field it is offered in. Most translation theorists agree that translation is understood as a transfer process from…
By Ibrahim Anwar : The majority of Kurdistan’s income is from the sale of oil. The Kurdistan Region produces 750,000 barrels per day (bpd) and, deducting all operation costs and other indirect costs, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG’s) revenue will be 1,720,000,000 USD for October 2013. The KRG has anticipated 1,957,000,000 USD as its monthly revenue during the first six months of 2014, with this…
