Kurdish History Journal
Articles filed under Kurdish History and Resilience.
A sourced chronology of Kurdish associations, the Sèvres proposals, Mahabad, Syrian citizenship campaigns, Iraqi autonomy negotiations, the PKK, Anfal and the regional institutions created in 1992.
Read article →Newspapers, student associations, diplomatic proposals and rival parties show how Kurdish political organisation changed. These selected milestones distinguish cultural identity, demands for rights and the institutions of regional self-government.
Read article →Kurdish political mobilisation has taken different forms in different states. Six dated cases connect demands for rights, contested uprisings, government institutions and civilian survival, without treating them as a single continuous movement.
Read article →Kurdish regional history connects places in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria through settlement, language, political institutions and cultural exchange. Understanding the region requires attention to the different meanings of Kurdistan, the diversity of local landscapes and the dates of political arrangements.
Read article →Kurdish sporting history includes local games, wrestling accompanied by music, Erbil’s continental football finals and diaspora clubs. Dated sources also show how access, youth work and girls’ participation shape sporting life.
Read article →Kurdish connections to Eurasian commerce emerge through particular cities, ruling houses and working markets. Ani, Diyarbakır and Erbil offer different kinds of evidence, from medieval caravan routes to Ottoman commercial buildings and modern tailoring workshops.
Read article →Kurdish festive life involves several calendars and settings: Newroz gatherings, Muslim family celebrations, Yazidi observances and organised arts programmes. These documented examples keep each occasion with its community, place and date.
Read article →Paris, Stockholm and Nashville offer concrete examples of Kurdish life abroad: institutions preserve books and language, community groups support newcomers, and public initiatives connect local belonging with ties to Kurdistan.
Read article →Kurdish and Iranian history meet through language families, changing court allegiances and particular books. Sharaf Khan Bedlisi, Mastoureh Ardalan and Rashid Yasemi illustrate different forms of participation in a multilingual literary world.
Read article →Erbil, Amedi, Diyarbakır, Lalish, Paikuli and Kunara preserve different kinds of evidence: houses, gates, gardens, shrines, inscriptions and archives. Their place in Kurdish heritage can be explored while keeping each site’s communities, chronology and material history distinct.
Read article →Between the Ottoman constitutional period and the interwar years, Kurdish organisers used associations, petitions, armed resistance and journals. Their programmes and claims to representation differed; five dated cases show how.
Read article →Kurdish tribal histories concern changing relationships among households, chiefs, land and governments. A tribal name may identify a branch, a larger confederation or a historical political network. Understanding those differences is more useful than assuming that every named group has remained unchanged since antiquity.
Read article →Research into Kurdish origins draws on language history, changing uses of the name Kurd and records of regional communities. These sources provide different kinds of evidence, with stronger documentation for some periods than others.
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