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Be the first to write a review About this product. About this product Product Information Celebrated journalist Bird offers a fascinating, illuminating and very personal glimpse into an exotic land and people of increasing global significance: Kurdistan. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. This account by a particularly attentive American woman journeying into the land of the Kurds. No one who wishes to be informed on what is going on in the world can afford to skip this important book about a little known and often abused people.
In A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts , she writes intelligently, personably, tirelessly, and engrossingly about the Kurds, a people execrably abused and eminently worth learning about. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition. See all 6. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. In this detailed history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day, McDowall examines the interplay of old and new aspects of the struggle, the importance of local rivalries within Kurdish society, the enduring authority of certain forms of leadership and the failure of modern states to respond to the challenge of Kurdish nationalism.
Since before the dawn of history, the mountainous lands of the northern Middle East have been home to the Kurds. Labelled mountain Turks in Turkey and Umayyad Arabs in Syria and Iraq, and coupled with the outright denial of their existence in Iran and Soviet Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, there is much confusion over the identity of the Kurds themselves. The American invasion of Iraq has been a success for one group: the Kurds. For centuries they have yearned for official statehood—and now, as one of the accidental outcomes of the invasion, the United States may have helped them take a big step toward that goal.
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The place names are familiar to anyone who watches the evening news: Kurdistan. Detailing two years in the life of a British political officer charged with establishing and maintaining British rule in the Kurdish district of Arbil in Iraq, this personal account provides a thorough discussion of Kurdish society from the viewpoint of Captain William Rupert Hay.
In , A. Hamilton travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan, having been commissioned to build a road that would stretch from Northern Iraq, through the mountains and gorges of Kurdistan and on to the Iranian border. In this colourful and engaging account, Hamilton describes the four years he spent overcoming immense obstacles — disease, ferocious brigands, warring tribes and bureaucratic officials — to carve a path through some of the most beautiful but inhospitable landscape in the world. In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq.
Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father s strange immigrant heritage until he had a son of his own. It was not until , when he and his family took refuge in Canada, that he was able to consider speaking out fully on these topics. This literary memoir is the project Barzanji worked on while in exile, and it is the first translation of his work from Kurdish into English. Charting the life of exile and displacement, terror and betrayal, repression and the subjugation of women, family love, flight, survival, and the mixed blessings of a mixed marriage in Britian, this book is a collection of poetry.
Baba Tahir Hamadani originally composed the quatrains in this book about a thousand years ago.
Parceled out among the four nation-states of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran after World War I, Kurdistan is a divided land with a tragic history, where the indomitable Kurds both celebrate their ancient culture and fight to control their own destiny. Impressive reportage, a fearless commitment to seeing what there is to see, and a strong sense of history: a fine work of literary travel, one that honors its subjects. Erin rated it it was ok Jul 08, Please enable JavaScript before proceeding:. More By and About This Author.
Centuries before Jelaluddin Rumi, Hafez and Jami, we see clearly set out the preoccupations, themes and symbols that have characterised Persian poetry right down to the present day. For two decades, since the Iraq-Iran war in , Iraq has been the focus of numerous political, economic, sociological, military, and geopolitical studies.