Kurdish people

Kurds are a group of ethnic Sunni Muslims who form a distinctive community, united through race, culture, and language, even though they have no standard dialect. Before World War I, the traditional Kurdish lifestyle was nomadic around sheep and goat herding throughout the Mesopotamian plains. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I created a number of new national states leaving the Kurds no longer free to roam and they were forced to abandon their seasonal migrations and traditional

Eastern Ghouta after this unfortunate incident happened. Karim’s injury was due to a consequence of civil anarchy that began seven years before he was born. This started a hashtag social media campaign that went viral on Facebook and Twitter with people, from sports stars to diplomats, posting pictures of themselves covering their eye with one hand. Some popular hashtags on social media include #SolidarityWithKarim and #StandWithKarim. "He and his mother came under an artillery attack in a popular

straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia” (2016). This would make them the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Although the Kurds adhere to a number of different religions and creeds, they are considered a race of people with a unique history that separate themselves from the surrounding cultures of the middle east due to their differing religious beliefs, cuisine, dance, crafts, and geopolitics. Who They Are The Kurds have occupied the now north-eastern Syria, south-eastern

4.4. A New Epoch of Political Life 4.4.1. The Sykes-Picot Collusion Long before the end of the War, the people in the Middle East had been destined to live in new boundaries bargained in the Sykes-Picot collusion of May 1916 or officially the Asia Minor Agreement which was leaked by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Britain, France, and the Czarist Russia had awarded themselves with splintering the Ottoman’s territories among themselves as they desired i.e., Cilicia, Lebanon, and Syria for France; Iraq

unofficially, the US has fully supported the Kurds militarily through the establishment of long-term partnerships between military forces. While always a point of contention with Turkey and the Government of Iraq (GOI), the recent increase in support for Kurdish forces in Syria to oppose the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) brought the issue to the forefront. The time for US policy to withhold support for the Kurds is past due to their critical role in the campaign against ISIL. The US attempted

largest housing project, which are Italian firm, Korean Firm, UAE, Kar Construction, RW, and Markez, and it has two sides which are disadvantages and advantages for the Iraqi people(Country Commercial Guide Iraq).According to the Article 2 investment law, the advantage is that many foreign companies come to Iraq and many Iraqi people employees work with them, so it helps to decrease the rate of unemployment (The Investment Law No (13) of 2006). The disadvantages are that Iraqi government gave them a lot

They are covering their faces, and they tell them that they should have over all passports, and money they have on them. The Kurdish villagers screams, and tries to get away from them, but for no use, Hussein, Miriam and Ali are in the background, they do not move, nor are they saying anything. They notice that the chief of the Kurdish villagers Amir is taken in the front, and is explaining to the soldiers that they are crusaders and that they just move around to find a new place

Kurdistan is a region located between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The Kurds are the biggest ethnicity on the planet without a state to this day. This paper will focus on the Iraqi part of Kurdistan, for it has come the closest to a state-like notion as per Weber’s definition. Iraqi Kurdistan is a region characterized by many diplomatic issues due to lack of acceptance as a state. The region was established through an autonomy agreement with Iraqi government in 1970 after decades of disputes between

Part1: In Ghobadi’s cinema, we see how Kurdish are treated differently from the normal Iranian women. For instance, their dress code is different Rojin address is exposing too much of her skin, she wears traditional colorful clothes were on a normal occasion she is supposed to wear the black chador in Iran. Though she covers her hair, she does so with a white headscarf, unlike the traditional Islamic black headscarf. The film also highlights the male dominance issue in the society. The women are

While the Yezidi live mostly in Kurdistan and speak a dialect of Kurdish, they are not to be confused with the Kurdish people. Ethnically, Yezidis are Kurdish but in every other aspect, they are certainly a culture of their own. Primarily, the largest distinction for the Yezidi is their religion. Due to this, the Yezidi people differ from most others in their society because of the differences that their religion leads to. The kinship aspect of Yezidi culture is very distinct and relates to their