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The Sphinx’s beard

Notes on Kurdish Political Naiveté By Prof. Mehrdad R. Izady, 1995 The head of Egypt’s celebrated Sphinx is collapsing. To…

Geopolitics

By Prof. M. R. Izady The geopolitics of Kurdistan has effectively precluded the formation of an independent Kurdish state in this…

Provisional Constitution

A Provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Kurdistan This provisional Constitution shall be presented to a public plebiscite within…

Kurdistan-Life-Mountains
Livestock

Included in agricultural production are animal products. The most important animals have been traditionally sheep and to a lesser extent…

The Water Kurdistan
The Water

In an otherwise water-starved region, Kurdistan is blessed with abundant precipitation. The generous regime has made Kurdistan one of the…

The Oil, Kurdistan
The Oil

Kurdistan has among the largest oil reserves in the Middle East and the world. With about 45 billion barrels, Kurdistan…

Kurdistan Industries
Industries

Marco Polo writes of the Kurds of the area between Mus, Mardin, and Mosul, and reports they produced cotton “in…

Agriculture

Kurdistan’s wealth of high-grade pasture lands has long made it suitable for a pastoralist economy, but it is equally suitable…