International Journal of Kurdish Studies Archives

Zhila Husseini
Born in Saqgiz, Iranian Kurdistan, in 1964, she published only one poetry collection titled “The growth of love,” in 1985….

Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, A.D. 1047-57
Paul A. Blaum
The reign of the Byzantine emperor Con…

A tangled web they weave: the mystery of Kurdish roots
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour
Kurds often complain that their ancestors, particular…

Were the Assyrians at Ecbatana?
I.N. Medvedskaya
The historical geography of Media of the 9th-7th century B.C. presents one of the …

The tale of Suto and Tato: Kurdish text with translation and notes
B. Nikitine
From the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies,…

The International Journal of Kurdish Studies: a cumulative index, 1986-2002
Lokman I. Meho
Published by the Kurdish Library since 1…

The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Hawraman and the heritage of Khalidiyya-Mujaddidiyya in Kurdistan
Farhad Shakely
The history of the Naqsh…

Black-white man, white-red woman: gender representations in Kurdish urban society
Andrea Fischer-Tahir
The paper examines cultural …

The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
Robert Kennedy
George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate. America In Iraq. New York: Farrar, Strauss …

Aesthetic aspects in the poetry of Mala-ye Jaziri
Farhad Shakely
THE POET’S LIFE
The life of the Kurdish Sufi poet Mala-ye J…