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GENERAL INFORMATION Wiktionary Kurdish! Help to build! Wikipedi: "Kurdish people" Wikipedia: "Kurdistan" Wikipedia: "Iraq" Infoplease: "Kurdish history timeline" Infoplease: "Understanding the Turkey-Kurd Conflict" Economic expert.com: "Kurds" Global Security.org: "Kurdistan" Washington Post: "Who are the Kurds?" Publication of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center: "Iraqi Kurds" Answers.com: "Kurds" About the Kurdish struggle (from personal webpage by Selena Sol) Private website of Alireza Noruzi: "Kurdpedia" University of Texas: Iraq maps POLITICAL PARTIES Iraqi KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) Iraqi PUK (Patriottic Union of Kurdistan) Iraqi PSK (Socialist Party of Kurdistan) Kurdistan Regional Government (Iraq) WOMEN Kurdish Women Union (their own website seems to be gone) Kurdish Women and Self-Determination: A Feminist Approach to International Law (a pdf-file) Women, violence and the politics of mobilising resistance: the case of Kurdish women Kurdish Womens Action Against Honour Killings (KWAHK) Solidarity with Iraqi and Kurdish women trade unionists (Report of a trade union women's visit to Britain, March 2006) Women in Iraqi Kurdistan - A Report by CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange Iraqi Women Under Siege - Also A Report by CODEPINK Iraqi Women and Children's Liberation Act of 2004 Women in Post-Saddam Iraq: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back? (a pdf-file) 12 Years engagement to Empower Women and promote Human Rights in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan (from WADI, a German-Iraqi NGO) So This Is Liberation? Article by Lauren Sandler in The Nation. No place for a woman. Plans to rebuild Iraq exclude women. By Lesley Abdela. Kurd Women In Kurdistan (written by someone from ERNK, a military organization linked to the PKK, disbanded in 2000, according to FOTW) Women's Rights (not specifically Kurdish or about Kurdish women) The Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) Equal Rights Now! (Paper of OWFI, August 2003 edition) - a pdf-file Iraq Women's Report Calls Violence Enemy No. 1 The Stolen Women of Kurdistan Kurds appoint first woman prefect in Iraq War, Diaspora and Learning: Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain and Sweden Women called to secure rights (article from Washington Times) Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq (a group of UK-based Iraqi and non-Iraqi women formed in 2000) Women's Rights in Iraq The Iraq Journalism Project has several articles on women in Iraq Amnesty International: Stop Violence Against Women Iraq Civil Society Program (of The Iraq Foundation)   Click to enlarge.

DUHOK ONLY Duhok in Wikipedia University of Dohuk eDohuk net Zoroastrian Temple Discovered in Duhok (from Kurdish Aspect) IRAQ: CULTURE / ART / EDUCATION Saladdin University in Erbil The Guardian Unlimited: Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth. (Article with very interesting links.) The Baghdad Museum Project British Museum Mesopotamia website Wikipedia on Mesopotamia The Iraq Foundation Back from the brink (from: Archaeology, Volume 59 Number 4, July/August 2006) Notes on Kurdish weaving KURDISH LANGUAGE / BOOKS Private website of Siamak Rezaei on Kurdish languages Kurdish languages chart Kurdish publishing house in London BLOGGING! Blogs galore! Weblog of Juan Cole, President of the Global Americana Institute Kurdo's World: blog of a Kurd in Kurdistan Kurdistan Bloggers Union Dutch blogger with an interest in Kurdish matters MISCELLANEOUS "Metamap Saddam Hussein" - worth a visit (don't forget to click somewhere) Kurdish links collection from a Danish website Kurdish links collection from a Finnish university lecturer's website Kurdish links collection from an Iranian personal website Kurd Net (Kurdish start page) Kurdish World.com (start page - Kurdish only) BBC News Indepth about Iraq Kurdish Media.com United Kurdish Voice (news site since 1998 about all things Kurdish) Kurdistan Information Network Yahoo News on "Kurdish Issues" Kurdish Globe: English newspaper in Erbil, Iraq "Kerkuk Kurdistane" (news etc.) "Kurweb" (news etc.) Kurdish Aspect (news etc.) Lawk Salih: positive news about Iraq (?) (startpage type) Chak ("a non-profit independent organization established in 2002 that acts against the genocide of the Kurds in Kurdistan") "mezopotamya tv" (site operated from Denmark) Kurdinfo.com Platform (in Kurdish) Kurd.us (mp3's, pictures, etc.) Kurdistanica: "the encyclopaedia of Kurdistan" Kurdland Klawrojna: "an independent online Kurdish-English newspaper" Kurdish Institute of Brussels UNPO (Unrepresentated Nations and Peoples Organization): (Iraqi) Kurdistan A.k.a. Kurdistan (stories and pictures of people without a homeland) Kurdish Institute in Washington Institut Kurde (French Kurdish Institute in Paris) "Berliner Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kurdologie" (made by female German and Kurdish "kurdology" scientists) - in German Kurdiskarf.org: Federation of Kurdish Associations in Sweden - in Kurdish and Swedish Worldpress.org on the "Plight of Kurds in Syria" Amnesty International on Syrian Kurds CNN and Time Magazine on the Öcalan-trial The Kurdistani Forum - Kurdish Discussion Forum Zawita.net (with list of Kurdish names, lots of links etc.) KURDISH JEWS & CHRISTIANS "A Fading Generation: The Jews of Kurdistan" - an article by Josh Goodman in the Yale Israel Journal - pdf-file About Kurdish jews (private website of one Harry Leichter) Kurdish Jewry - in Hebrew Answers.com about Kurdish Christians Pfd-file from a Christian missionary organization (?) including information on Kurdish Christians

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