At the start of the 20th century, most of Kurdistan was controlled by the Ottoman and Persian empires, which kept tight control over the Kurds and other ethnic ... Redraw the Map After the fall ...

The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of two generations among the Kurdish diaspora in Sweden ... Brubaker, R 2005, ‘The ‘diaspora’ diaspora’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 28, ...

Recently, the UNPO published a reflection paper on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement that was initiated in Iranian Kurdistan ...

As we got closer, things became clearer. I could make out the map of Kurdistan — my home nation — on the protestors’ banners.

Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region are going to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections ...

These maps help explain the offensive and what is happening on the ground. Between 25 and 35 million ethnic Kurds inhabit ... the main Kurdish parties avoided taking sides. In 2012, government ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - With only days to go in the campaigning period, candidates in the parliamentary elections debated long-standing issues of enacting a constitution for the Kurdistan Region ...

A Kurdish restaurant owner in Kawaguchi said he has been the target of frequent hateful phone calls over the past six months with the same message directed at other ethnic minorities: leave Japan.

The semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wednesday officially began a campaign phase for its parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20. The vote, which was rescheduled five times due ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Tens of billions of dollars have been lost since the Kurdistan Region’s oil pipeline exports were halted last year, the oil producing firms said on Saturday ...

Elite Discourses, Nationalism and Moderation: A Dialectical Analysis of Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms ... Geography, identity, nationality: mental maps of contested Russian-Ukrainian borderlands.

For the Kurdish and Baluchi people ... linguistic hegemony and suppress and assimilate non-Persian national and ethnic groups, such as the Baluchis, Kurds, Qashqais, Armenians, Azeris, Arabs ...