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Kurdish dance (Kurdish: Govend, هه‌ڵپه‌ركێ / Hilperkê ) is a group of traditional hand-holding dances similar to those from the Balkans, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. It is a form of round dancing, with a single or a couple of figure dancers often added to the geometrical centre of the danci...

  A brief survey of The History of the Kurds Who Are the Kurds? Brushing over a depiction of 25 centuries of history in half an hour is obviously a tough task. That means about one minute per century! In this quick skimming through 1 can limit myself to merely pointing out a few major landmards a...

For the first time in centuries, Kurds have a nation they can call their own — on the Internet. By Christopher Farah Apr 7, 2004 | Three weeks ago in northern Syria, clashes erupted between Arab police and the ethnic Kurds who call that area their home despite being granted a bare minimum of r...

Introduction Of all the ethnic groups in the world, the Kurds are one of the largest that has no state to call their own. According to historian William Westermann, “The Kurds can present a better claim to race purity…than any people which now inhabits Europe.” (Bonner, p. 63...

With regard to the origin of the Kurds, it was formerly considered sufficient to describe them as the descendants of the Carduchi, who opposed the retreat of the Ten Thousand through the mountains in the 4th century BCE. But modern research traces them far beyond the period of the Greeks. At the daw...