About three-fifths of the Kurds, nearly all of them Kurmânji speakers, are today at least nominally Sunni Muslims of the…
The infusion of an Indo-European (Iranic) language, culture, and genetic element into the Kurdish population over the two millennia preceding…
Marco Polo writes of the Kurds of the area between Mus, Mardin, and Mosul, and reports they produced cotton “in…
Mehrdad lzady (Kurdish: Mihrdad Ízedí, مهرداد ئیزهدی) was born in 1963 to a Kurdish father and a Belgian mother. He spent much…
Robert Olson, Professor of Middle East Politics, University of Kentucky Due to the strong resistance to the US occupation of…
By Prof. Mehrdad R. Izady The question of Kurdish origins, i.e., who the Kurds are and where they come from, has…
The Netherlands organisation for Scientific Research NWO has granted a subsidy to prof. dr Wilfred H. van Soldt (Humanities, LIAS)…
Diane E. King, 2009 Before the Iraqi Baath regime’s ouster in 2003, I intermittently lived and carried out research in…
Prof. Ismet Cherif Vanli (1924-2011), also known as Ismet Sheríf Wanlí in Kurdish (Kurdish: Ismet Sheríf Wanlí, عیسمەت شەریف وانلی),…