Kurdish people Kurdish people Kayhan Kalohor (كيهان كلهر) is an Iranian kamancheh player of Kurdish origin. In 2004, two of his works were nominated for Grammy Awards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kayhan Kalhor"
Khana Qubadi or (Xana Qubadî in Kurdish), ( 1700- 1759), was a Kurdish poet. He wrote his poems in the Hawrami ( Gorani) dialect. He belonged to the Hawrami school of poetry in the Ardalan principality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khana Qubadi"
Kurdistan is both the name of a geographic region and a cultural region in the Middle East named after the Kurds, a large ethnic group living in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria. Most Kurds speak Kurdish. Its borders are hard to define. While Iran and Iraq acknowledge Kurdistan as parts of their territories ( Iraqi Kurdistan region in Iraq and Kurdistan Province in Iran), Turkey and Syria do not recognize Kurdistan as a demographic or geographic region. Kurdistan is generally held to include the regions in northern Middle East with large Kurdish populations. The boundaries of the modern ethnographic region of Kurdistan (i.e. the region populated by Kurds) overlaps with the historical ethnic homelands of the Syriacs and the Armenian people. According to one account, Kurdistan includes 27-28 million people in a 190,000 km2 (74,000 sq. mi) area. Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in Kurdistan, which covers an area as big as France. The Kurdistan Province in Iran and the Kurdish Autonomous Region in Iraq are both included in the usual definition of Kurdistan. Kurdish people are found in regions far from their ancestral homeland. The largest Kurdish enclave outside Kurdistan is the Kurdish region in north Khorasan, in north-eastern Iran. Other scattered smaller communities are found in Azarbaijan( Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh), the Alburz mountain range in northern Iran, Guilan province in northern Iran and Sistan and Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran. (See ** ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kurdistan"
Latif Halmat or Letîf Helmet, ( 1947- ), is a Kurdish poet. He was born in Kifri near Kirkuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. He worked as a journalist during the 1970s and 1980s. He has published some twenty poetry books. He has also been active in the area of children's literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Latif Halmat"
Leyla Qasim (1952 Xaneqîn, 12.05.1974 Baghdad) was a Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Baath regime who was executed in Baghdad. She is known as a national martyr among the Kurds ...more on Wikipedia about "Leyla Qasim"
Leyla Zana (born May 3, 1961), is a female Kurdish human-rights activist in Turkey, who was imprisoned for speaking Kurdish in the Turkish parliament. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leyla Zana"
This is a list of well known Kurdish people. It includes poets, writers, clerics, rulers, politicians and artists. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Kurdish people"
Lokman Polat, ( 1956- ), is a Kurdish writer. He was born in Licê around Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. Before 1980, he was involved in publishing political commentaries and news. He has been arrested several times due to his actvities in the field of Kurdish literature, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia. He moved to Sweden in 1984 and began writing short stories in Kurdish. Lokam Polat is a founding member of the Kurdish Writers Association(Komela Nivîskarên Kurd), a member of the international PEN and a member of the Writers' Union of Sweden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lokman Polat"
Dr Mahmoud Othman was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Then he founded the Kurdish Socialist Party. He was also the Chief Negotiator in the 1970 agreement with the Bath Party. He is now a leading member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He has also been tipped to be the next Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mahmoud Othman"
Mahmud Baksi(Mahmûd Baksî), ( 1944- 2000), was a Kurdish writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in Batman province in south-eastern Turkey. He began to publish a newspaper titled Batman Gazetesi in 1967. He bacme th ehead of the Batman branch of the Workers Party of Turkey. From 1968 to 1970, he became involved in the labor union movement of Turkey. Around the same period, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for promoting Kurdish nationalism. In 1970, he fled to Germany and later to Sweden where he stayed until his death. He is buried in Diyarbakir. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mahmud Baksi"
Mahmud Bayazidi or Mehmûdê Beyazîdî, ( 1797- 1859), was a Kurdish writer. He was born in Bayazid(Doğubeyazıt) in Ağrı Province in present-day eastern Turkey. He started his studies by reading Koran, and then Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature. Then he moved to Tabriz in north-western Iran to continue his studies. After finishing his studies, he went back to his hometown and became a teacher. After the fall of Kurdish emirates in Bayazid, he moved to Erzurum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mahmud Bayazidi"
Mahwi or Mehwî (Mala Muhammad Mela Osman Ballkhi), ( 1830- 1906), was a Kurdish poet and sufi. He studied in Sablakh and Sinne. He became a judge in the court of Sulaimaniya in 1862. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abd-ul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqah in Sulaimniya and named it after the Ottoman sultan. In his poems, he mainly promotes sufism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mahwi"
Malaye Jaziri (or Melayê Cizîrî),( 1570- 1640) was a Kurdish writer , poet and mystic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Malaye Jaziri"
Mama Risha (1957-1985), was a prominent member of the armed Kurdish fighters, also known as ( peshmarga), in northern Iraq during the Kurdish prolonged warfare with the Iraqi Government armed forces in their struggle for self-ruled northern Iraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mama Risha"
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Massoud Barzani (born August 16, 1946) is the head of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He has been the president of the party since 1979. Barzani led the Kurdistan Democratic Party to establish a government in Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. He was also a member of the US-led occupation of Iraq, " Iraq Interim Governing Council". He became president of the council on April 1, 2004, for a term of one month. ...more on Wikipedia about "Massoud Barzani"
Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan or Mastura Ardalan ( Mestûrey Erdelan in Kurdish ) ( 1805 - 1848) was an Iranian Kurdish poet and writer. She was born in Senna ( Sanandaj) in north-western Iran and deceased in Sulaymaniyah in present-day north-eastern Iraq. She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the court of the Ardalan principality centered in Senna. She studied Kurdish, Arabic and Persian under the supervision of his father, Abolhasan Beig Qadiri. Her husband, Khasraw Khani Ardalan was the ruler of the principality. Her husband's death, leaves the principality vulnerable to outside interference. When the Qajar state conquered the Ardalan territory in 19th century, she and her family left for the Baban principality centered in Sulaymaniyah. Her son, Reza Qulikhan, the successor to Khasraw Khan, was imprisoned by the Qajars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mastoureh Ardalan"
Mawlawi Tawagozi, ( 1806- 1882), was a Kurdish poet and sufi. He was born in the village of Serşatey Xwarû in the Tawegoz region in Iraqi Kurdistan. He began studying under supervision of his father and later continued his religious studies in the famous schools of Ardalan and Babab principalities. He received his religious certificate from Mela Ebdurehman Nodşeyî in Sulaimaniya. Then he focused on training young students and wirting literary works and poems. He was a follower of the Naqshbandi sufi order. He was in close contact with other Kurdish poets and also Ardalan and Baban rulers such as Ahmad Pasha and Reza Quli Khan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mawlawi Tawagozi"
Mehmed Emin Bozarslan, ( 1935- ), is a Kurdish writer. He was born in Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. He moved to Sweden as political asylum seeker in 1978, and he has been living in Uppsala Sweden since then. The most famous of his earlt works was Alfabê which was the first ABC-Book for Kurdish learning that was published in Turkey in 1968. The books was abounded immediately by Turkish court. Emin was arrested and jailed under separatisms changes. He was released after a while but jailed again in another occasion under military regime from spring 1971 to summer of 1974. He moved to Sweden as political asylum seeker in 1978, and he has been living in Uppsala, Sweden since then. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mehmed Emin Bozarslan"
He has published seven novels in Kurdish. Uzun published his first attempt at a modern Kurdish novel in 1985, Tu(You). After that he edited an anthology of Kurdish literature, the first of its kind. Critical success came with his novel "In the Shadow of a Lost Love". The story fictionalizes a 1920s Kurdish intellectual's failed struggle to pursue both his love for a woman and his duty to fight the newly formed Turkish republic. His novels began to be translated into European languages in the 1990s. Two of his books have been published in Swedish: a collection of essays, Granatäppelblomning (The Pomegranate Flowers), and the novel I skuggan av en förlorad kärlek (In the Shadow of a Lost Love). In collaboration with Madeleine Grive, he has also published an international anthology, Världen i Sverige (The World in Sweden), a pioneering anthology of texts by writers who were not born in Sweden, but who are living and writing in this country. He also publishes in the journal of the Kurdish Institute of Paris, Kurmancî. He has won the Torgny Segerstedt Award for 2001 for his pioneering work in a narrative tradition at once new and old, and for his moral life adventure and his undaunted belief in the power of the word. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mehmed Uzun"
Mohammad Ghazi is a Kurdish ethnic Iranian writer and translator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mohammad Ghazi"
Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, commonly known as Mullah Krekar, born July 7, 1956, is an Iraqi Kurdish mullah who came to Norway as a refugee from northern Iraq in 1991. His wife and four children have Norwegian citizenship, but not Krekar himself. He speaks Norwegian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mullah Krekar"
Mustafa Barzani ( March 14, 1903– March 1, 1979) was a Kurdish nationalist leader and President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Legendary to many of his people, Barzani was one of the most inspired, tenacious and resilient Kurdish leaders with a commitment to the struggle for Kurdish interests. He led the armed struggle, notably from 1961 to 1963, and from April 1974 to May 1975. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mustafa Barzani"
Najiba Ahmad,( 1954- ) is a contemporary Kurdish writer and poet. She was born in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. She studied Kurdish language and literature at the University of Sulaimaniya and worked as a teacher for many years before she joined the Kurdish liberation movement. She has published two volumes of her short stories and two novels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Najiba Ahmad"
Nali or Nalî( 1798- 1855), was a Kurdish poet. His real name was Xidir. He was born in 1798 in the town of Xelaxul. In order to complete his studies, he travelled to many cities in Kurdistan, such as Senna, Mahabad, Halabja and Sulaimaniya. In 1830, he did the pilgrimage to Mecca, and on the way back, visited Damascus and Istanbul, where he came to know many Kurdish intellectuals and writers. During his youth, two powerful principalities of Ardalan and Baban were ruling the southern part of Kurdistan. In 1837, the Baban principality is destroyed by the Ottoman state. This event affects him deeply and he has dedicated many of his poems to the his love for his homeland. In addition to Kurdish, he was fluent in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. A collection of his poems is published in Iraqi Kurdistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nali"
Nawshirwan (Also Noshirwan) Mustafa is a prominent Kurdish politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nawshirwan Mustafa"
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