The Economist THEIR history is full of tales of persecution, betrayal and desperate flight. But few Kurdish fables are as…
Robert Olson, Professor of Middle East Politics, University of Kentucky Due to the strong resistance to the US occupation of…
Manifesto of the Kurdish People for the Creation of a Free, Independent and Unified Homeland 1996 Justice dictates that all…
The First Documented Resettlementof Kurds into Western and Southwestern Anatoliacirca 181 BC By: M. R. Izady, July 1998 During the Seleucid/Macedonian…
By Prof. Mehrdad R. Izady The late Dr. Henny Harald Hansen (1900-93) will long be remembered for her many authored and…
By Mehrdad R. Izady, 1992 In correspondence with the prestigious British scientific journal, Nature (Vol.360,5, Nov. 1992, p.24), Rudolph Michel of…
By Prof. Mehrdad Izady A most important first step in launching the field of Kurdish studies is the creation of…
Prof. M. R. Izady A few years ago, I was given a letter from an American, non-academic individual, asking “Are Kurds…
By Prof. M. R. Izady General history One of the least-known-and most fascinating-chapters in Kurdish history is the long-lasting participation…
By Prof. M. R. Izady Like many other aspects of their national existence and identity, the extent of the areas…
Dialectology is a sub-field of historical linguistics, the scientific study of linguistic dialect. It studies variations in language based primarily on…
The unprejudiced academics that study Kurdish history are united in the view that the Kurds are an ancient race (1)….