Identity
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The Question of The Identity of The Refugee Character in Kurdish Novels
Mohammed Ahmed Hasan, Hawkar Qadir Rasul
The issue of identity is a contemporary issue, an issue that with the advent of modernism and postmodernism becomes the center of research in many fields. It covers issues of identity, gender identity, ethnicity and many other areas. Our research is working on the issue of refugee character identity. The anthropological, political, social, and psychological dimensions are important in this regard, because the person who becomes a refugee has been raised and educated within one culture, and when he enters another, he is confronted with similarities between me and the other. Obviously, the issues of human reality, refugees and the culture of migration are discussed in the novel. That is, in the novel, all subjects such as culture, identity and the other are reflected in the world we call the novel. In this context, Kurdish novels focus on the identity and character similarities of refugees and we have several novels on this subject. We study this subject from the perspective of cultural narrative. The refugee character in the environment in which he lives is constantly trying to adapt to the culture of the nation, because he has left his culture and identity and now must adapt to this new culture and not be seen as an apostate and find the environment in which he is a refugee and create a new identity for himself.
Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025Identity and Symbols of Ancient Artistic Sculptures in Kurdistan Region
Hawkar Shukur Mahmood, Aras Ismail Khider
This research studies specific areas to discuss the identity of ancient sculpture and its artistic significance and Symbols in the Kurdistan region. The term "Stone Bar" refers to both two-dimensional and three-dimensional engravings on the face of rocks and mountains, achieved by taking small and suitable pieces of rocks and carving them to create sculptures with distinct artistic identities and meanings. Generally, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Mesopotamia), namely the Kurdistan region and its surrounding areas, has inherited numerous rock carving artifacts. In addition to rocks, in some other civilizations, wooden carving artifacts have been left in this area due to the ease of obtaining wood from trees and transforming it into household tools and artistic materials at that time. Sculpture, on the other hand, refers to any statue created through construction or the addition of parts made from various raw materials, aimed at expressing different artistic themes and projects. This research represents an intellectual and aesthetic exploration of expressions and the discovery of identity and artistic meanings in ancient sculpture works in Kurdistan. The research also relies on artistic, social, archaeological, and geographical dimensions of the archaeological areas from which the research sample is drawn. It involves examining, recording, and analyzing the characteristics, shapes, signs, and symbols of the research sample's sculptures, as well as the method of classifying their identities and artistic meanings. This is done in order to open new avenues for achieving the original artistic identity of ancient sculptures in Kurdistan.
Volume 12 · Issue 4 · August 2025The Identity Crises of Women and Others
Mohammed Ahmed Hasan, Rasul Hamad Rasul
Women regularly search for their identity in a Male-dominant society. The case is often an issue as the women consider men as a threat on their culture experience; thus, the gender conflicts are existed. The term Others refers back to a cultural authority that doesn't accept any other identities. The aim of this study is an attempt to show the women contemplation for their identity, which has been a chronical issue for women and Others. The identity refers back to human beings' true personality, other dimensions, and the attitudes that differ them from each other. The true identity of one has its individual features that differ from others; besides, within a group makes the group features to be different than other social groups. The pronouns such as (I, He and She) are true dimensions of building identity, besides the individuals have the capability of building different identity. The study contains two chapters. The first chapter is under the title (Identity and Literature issues of Women). This chapter is theoretical and includes two sections. The first section explains the term identity, and the second section explains the features of the women works in literature. The second chapter is the methodological and practical part, which includes the identity issues and its differences. The chapter includes three sections: first section is about woman issues as an individual, section two is about identity and Others with their conflicts, section three is specified for social Identity and Others in the novel.
Volume 12 · Issue 1 · February 2025The Language identity in Kurdish proverbs
Pareshan Khalid Sabir, Sirwan Jabbar Amin
Despite the fact that language is an integral part of the personal and social identities of any nation, it contains other dimensions of national identity such as culture, religion, history and politics. It is a known fact that language is a national wealth because language is a source of memory, tradition, thought, feelings and passions of people. It is a historical archive of words, phrases, terms and expressions. In other words, it is the history of those ideas, events and feelings that have become words, sentences and terms that are preserved in language. Every expression in language signifies an idea outside of itself. Therefore, it is safe to say that language of any nation represents its true identity alive. This research has been conducted under the title “language Identity in Kurdish Proverbs”. Many language characteristics can be shown through research on the content of Kurdish proverbs. To do so, those proverbs have been selected that directly or indirectly represent language. In doing so, one can be familiarised with the Kurdish view of language in terms of its use, guidance and education. This research is an attempt to gather information about the Kurds by the Kurds themselves rather than external researchers. For that purpose, descriptive and analytics methods are employed to interpret the content of the proverbs that contain language identity. The incentive of the research is to uncover the verbal role of these proverbs in tracing the Kurdish language identity and in showing their Kurdish perspective on the concept of language.
Volume 11 · Issue 6 · December 2024Identity Crisis in the Post-Colonialism Novels
Siva Ali Arif Fatah
This research is titled, Identity Crisis in the Post-Colonialism Novels, The Novel “Whdaha SHjarat AL-Rumman” as an example. This research is a description about identity crisis in a novel by the Iraqi author (Sinan Antoon) that is regarded as one of the post-colonialism novels. In this research, we have talked about that the author represents the agony, wars, devastation and havoc Iraq went through starting from the outset of the Iraq-Iran war until the emergence of the ISIS. The author, as a critic, has strived for focusing on the atrocities and consequences of war on the Iraqis of all different groups. Concurrently, he has strived for working on the novel text using a scene or making a character as the novel protagonist and the details of showing the different crises of an intellectual individual like social, economic, political and cultural crises. Our research is backed by the theoretical subjects relevant to the post-colonialism approach and the concepts and aspects the approach relies on that are deviation from sticking to a certain identity and the conflict that identity creates with crises aiming to reach stability and keeping the identity of Iraqi individuals. The author has regarded using a new and different language as he has personally lived in the events and has then chosen diaspora due to war and devastation to reach a sort of stability and protection. According to the theory, this situation, once again, results in identity crisis. Finally, we have explained the text using the method of textual analysis and presented some conclusions.
Volume 11 · Issue 4 · August 2024The National identity in Kurdish proverbs
Pareshan Khalid Sabir, Sirwan Jabbar Amin
Identity is intimately related to people’s understanding of “who they are,” “what they are,” and what matters to them. This understanding depends on a number of factors. Identity also creates similarities and differences between individuals or groups. In fact, the emergence of identity is the emergence of similarities and differences between oneself and the other. That is, when someone says I am that person, that family, that nation, he says I am different from this and that and the others. National identity is an individual's sense of affiliation with a nation. Geography has its impact on language and national identity. Without this geography, called the country, states, cultures and civilizations could not exist. Lifestyles, forms of communication and languages have emerged according to the areas in which people live. This research is entitled “National Identity in Kurdish Proverbs”. Through the study of the content of Kurdish folk proverbs, many of the characteristics of the national identity and civilizational characteristics of an important part of the population of Kurdistan, especially in the center and south, can be known. This includes familiarity with the customs and traditions and the nature of the economic, social and political situation. This research is an attempt to get to know the Kurds through the Kurds themselves, not foreigners. This paper aims to demonstrate this role. The aim of this study is to show the role and characteristics of proverbs as some examples of oral means of expressing Kurdish national identity, because proverbs are the wisdom of human experience and a mirror of culture, opinions, norms and lifestyles. For this purpose, the method of "descriptive, analytical" has been used to interpret the content of the proverbs that carry national identity.
Volume 11 · Issue 4 · August 2024Unveiling Avant-Garde: A Study of Fady Joudah's Textu Poetry
Arwa Hussein Aldoory
The study examines how Japanese haiku poetry, which has been popular in American poetry since the turn of the 20th century, was revisited by Fady Joudah. The paper argues that current Arab-American poetry's avant-gardism is best shown by Joudah's appropriation of this poetic form in his poetry collection, Textu. Joudah’s new poetic genre tackles topics pertaining to the Arab-American identity in the digital era by utilizing avant-garde approaches. The suggestiveness of Haiku, which emphasizes the visual picture, word accuracy, and clear diction, is brilliantly appropriated by Joudah. The paper significantly demonstrates how a smartphone can condense pages of invocations and disclosures. It contends that Jouda's text message-like poems, which are each restricted to 160 characters, may most effectively capture the hurried spirit of the twenty-first century represented by its growing use of cell phones’ texting and twittering.
Volume 10 · Issue 4 · December 2023Erasing discourse identities of narrative hegemony Reading in the novel (The Virgin of Sinjar) by Ward Badr Al-Salem
Saman Jalil Ibrahim Mohammed
This research is an attempt to study identity in the novel “The Virgin of Sinjar” by Ward Badr Al-Salem in the light of a group of rhetorical dominions that practiced erasing all its details and composition towards the Yezidi Kurds, especially that the space of the novel has considered the human component as the axis of the geology of the narrative text, and for this the novel came to bear these dominations through a series of narrative sequences that employed the discourse within the circle of erasure. The nature of the research required an introduction in which he explained why we chose this novel to be the sample of the research, and paved for him with a preamble in which I talked about identity representation, followed by two sections, the first section was called “Erasing the Yazidi Identity,” while the second section was marked “Erasing the Kurdish Identity.” Both sections included several manifestations, including a conclusion, and a list of sources and references for the research. This study is based on textual critical reading by tracing the applied procedures of cultural criticism revealing the manifestation of identity representations behind rhetorical dominions in the textual structures of the novel.
Volume 10 · Issue 3 · September 2023Afrocentric Study of Black Female Identity in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness
Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
African American playwrights always tend to manifest their African heritage and culture (Afrocentrism) through their plays. In other words, Afrocentrism means African centered-ness. Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity basically focuses on Africans and places African history, heritage and culture at the heart of any analysis. One of the Afrocentric writers is Alice Childress whose texts generally center on the devastating effects of racial discrimination, sexism and classism on women of colour. This study is principally concerned with the one-act play of Alice Childress, Wine in the Wilderness, which was written in 1964 and was first performed in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the series, “On Being Black”. In Wine in the Wilderness, Childress is bound by history and tradition since several references can be found in the play that considers Africa as a homeland and wellspring of strength. This paper investigates some questions such as: how does Alice Childress employ the Afrocentric value in the play? What is the purpose of Afrocentrism in the play? Who best represents Afrocentrism throughout the play? This paper delineates that Tommy, as an undereducated heroine and as a true Afrocentrist female in the play, is proud of her black culture and her blackness.
Volume 10 · Issue 2 · June 2023Language as an Element of Culture
Darezh Wrya Mohammed
With the creation of human, language has emerged in order to communicate and meet their needs, although it has enhanced gradually in different stages until it reaches this level we have had now, so it can be said that language is one of the characteristics that distinguishes human beings from other creatures, this is mean that language is one of the basic human needs for social life and daily work. In the anthropology filed, language occupies a wide space, since it is the study of human as an intelligent and cultured creature. Moreover, language is one of the basic cultural elements and at the same time the transmitter and disseminator of culture. It is also a means of communication and a builder of relationships, which is important in the field, since the social structure of societies is made based on relationships. Language is of fundamental importance in human life. Although the characteristic of linguistics is that it studies language and analyses it at a deep linguistic level, it also becomes the field of anthropological research as a cultural element. Hence, the subject of the research is how anthropology views the cultural element of language. How does it fit into anthropology in relation to culture and as a cultural genre? The aim of this study is to theoretically show the relationship between anthropology and language in general, to point out the structure and function of language as an important cultural element, and to show the situation of Kurdish language in relation to cultural identity. Language and culture are in a dialectical relationship. Language is part of culture and at the same time the transmitter and protector of culture, since culture is the complex in whole that is received by individuals as member of society, language becomes important, since language is the main means of acceptance. The importance of language in identifying culture. It has been said that the language of a nation or society is the key to identifying their culture, it is also strongly linked to cultural and national identity and is considered a fundamental basis of identity. As a result, language has changed more under the influence of external factors, which has had a relative impact on all other cultural elements and social life