Kurds
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The Reaction of Arab Countries Towards the Kurdish National Liberation Movement in Iraqi Kurdistan (1976-1979)
Omeed Yaseen Rasool, Muhammad Abdullah Kaksawar
Many people thought that the Kurdish national movement had come to an end after the September revolution of 1975, but the Kurds rose up once more, forming a number of new political parties as Kurdish history entered a new era and the armed struggle began. Syria and Libya generously donated money and military support to these parties. Additionally, the Kurds placed a high value on the sympathy and assistance of the Palestinian parties, and this time is especially notable for the strong external contacts of the Kurdish parties. At that point, we can state that at the conclusion of this research, we arrived at the conclusion that Kurds would not have been able to simply rebel and resume hostilities if not for Syria and Libya.
Volume 11 · Issue 6 · December 2024Intersectionality of Female Otherness, Resistance, and Challenges in Ava Homa’s Fountain and Wind Through My Hair
Muli Amaye, Yadgar Ismail Said
This paper investigates how females' otherness is formed amidst layers of oppression related to the abuse of religion, politics, and traditions and how characters resist or rebel in both Fountain and Wind Through My Hair within the story collection known as Echoes from the Other Land (2010) by Ava Homa. It will also investigate the way Kurdish women feel 'othered' exploring their ethnic identity, female identity, societal and patriarchal norms, and mix of state politics and religion, in addition to the way they behave and dress up in society as portrayed in the works. The works showcase the lives of Kurdish women in the face of various intersecting challenges in the patriarchal, ethno-centric, theocratic society of Iran. The paper sheds light on various issues related to women’s autonomy, cultural expectations, and gender inequality. In both works, characters resist and debunk the tradition as othered and marginalized females. The issues can be tackled through both postcolonial and intersectional feminism as the two are in line with the issues of women of developing countries who are identified as minorities and whose identity is suppressed.
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.