While widely celebrated, the holiday holds particular cultural and political significance for Kurds throughout the Middle East and diaspora communities worldwide ....
In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental expression of Kurdish identity. (Image credit. Claire Harbage) ....
Behind that hope is the longing of Iranian Kurds in Iraq that they can someday return to homes they only remember through paintings on their walls and faded photographs ... Iraqi Kurds govern a semiautonomous area in northern Iraq.
AFP, SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq... Among them were Iranian Kurds Sirwa Mustafazada and Kwestan Aminpana, who fled their home country as a result of their activism in 2018. After three weeks of war, they share the same yearning. “Next year, we will be back.” ... .
Kurds are considered the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, and have faced repression in the four Middle Eastern countries that encompass the area known as Kurdistan... identity as Kurds.
They fled Iran as children and now, living in Iraq as adults, they express guarded hope the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran will weaken the theocracy that forced them into exile decades ago ... .
Behind that hope is the longing of Iranian Kurds in Iraq that they can someday return to homes they only remember through paintings on their walls and faded photographs. × This page requires Javascript ...Please enable it in your browser settings ... .
“We do not act according to any other power. We ourselves will do what is necessary and we will make the necessary decisions accordingly,” PJAK co-chair Peyman Viyan said ....
What comes after the regime is now the question that must be asked by both the people of Iran and the great powers.|�Read More�JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post....