Refugee
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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 6 · December 2025The Effects of Statelessness as a Factor in Poetry Creation in Peshew's work
Rebaz Hassan Rahman Amin, Sangar Qadir Sheikh Mohammad Haji
This research studies the aspects and the effects of statelessness of the Kurds in the poetry of Abdullah Pashew. There are a few nations around the world that suffer from the tragedy of being stateless or in other words nations without an established and recognized state for their own. The Kurds are one of those nations that have suffered from being deprived from having an independent and free state along the history. This state of being stateless effects the individuals in a way either leads them to disappointment and various struggles, or it becomes a source for inspiration and creativity for some other individuals, artists and poets for instance. The Kurdish poet, Abdullah Pashew is one of those who has used the problem of his nation, statelessness of the Kurds, as a source for inspiration, creativity and innovation in his poetry. Pashew, an experienced poet who has gone through exile and being a refugee abroad for years, sees the statelessness as a strong tool for creativity in his poetry especially as a matter for defending national identity and expression of deep feelings and thoughts. This research from a descriptive-analytical perspective deals with two main effects of the statelessness on the individuals. First, it argues the impact of lack of identity on individuals leading the poet to fill the void using art and poetry. Second, it deals with the feelings of exile and refugee ness of the poet that leads to artistic expression and writing poems that in fact it changes the negative feelings into creativity.