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This book is an examination of changing perceptions of both Kurdistan and Kurdish identity over time and space and attempts to project those perceptions onto historical, political and cartographic realities. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mountains of Kurdistan, Īlām Province, Kulliye, Cheekha Dar, Sinjar Mountains, Mount Korek, Nalishkêne, Mount Taragha, Dekon, Mount Arbaba, Amedi District. Excerpt: lm Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Wikipede edits Ghalaghiran Mountain. This mountain has been reflected as symbol of Ilam in a number of literature pieces and is located 3km away from Ilam cityIlam province is among the warmest regions of Iran, although the mountainous areas of north and north eastern Ilam are relatively cold. The average annual rainfall province is 578 mm. Ilam's highest point is the peak Kabir Kuh at 2790 m, part of the Zagros mountains. In 1996, the absolute maximum temperature was 38 °C in August and the minimum temperature was 0.4 °C in February. The number of freezing days in winter was 27 days. The population of Ilam City is predominantly Feyli Kurdish. Lurs live mostly in the southern and eastern parts of the province; for example: Abdanan, Darreshahr, Dehloran and Mehran. The north is mostly inhabited by Kurdish tribes who speak with two dialects: Kalhuri and Feyli. The majority are Feyli Kurds, such as Kurdish tribes of Khezel, Arkawâzi, Beyrey (Ali Sherwan), Malek shahi and Shuhan. Most are Shi'a Muslims. Limited archaeological studies and discoveries indicate 6,000 years of tribal residence in Ilam. Historical evidence indicates that Ilam province was part of the ancient Elamite Empire. The Ilamians named their territory Hetamiti, meaning the land of god. In some of the epigraphs left from Sumerian history, this territory was called Alam, Alamo, or Alamto meaning the high lands where the sun rises. By immigration of Aryans and establishment of Aryan kingdoms, Ilam became a part of their territory. It was also part of the Achaemenid Em... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=448068 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from International Journal of Kurdish Studies, published by Kurdish Library on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 8206 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kurdistan ignored: even by American professional geography textbook writers.(Contemporary World Regional Geography, Second Edition)(World Regional Geography, 9th Edition)(Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts, 13th Edition)(World Regional Geography, 6th Edition)(World Regions in Global Context: People Places, and Environment, 3rd Edition)(World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives, 4th Edition)(Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development, 4th Edition)(Book review)
Author: M. Koohzad
Publication: International Journal of Kurdish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Kurdish Library
Volume: 22Issue: 1-2Page: 173(20)

Article Type: Book review

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Maps are powerful geopolitical tools, which are widely used to represent conflicts over territory, boundaries, citizens, and resources. But maps do more than represent. They are also discursive tools, which reflect, express, and help create geographic knowledge, political agendas, and social stereotypes. Through a longitudinal study of American journalistic cartography of Kurdistan - an ambiguously defined region that has often been in the midst of geopolitical conflict - this paper argues that maps reflect and recreate dominant geopolitical discourses, which are often intricately linked to orientalist discourses. A critical analysis of the design elements of place names, map text, border demarcation, and symbology revealed that these representations not only reflected the political and social narratives of the time and space in which they were created, but also constructed and communicated subtle and blatant positions towards the Kurds and Kurdistan. More specifically, these maps frequently marginalized the Kurds by questioning their geopolitical territorial claims, and also portrayed them in typical orientalist discourse as violent rebels or backward victims depending on the U.S. agenda in the region at the time. This paper will show how these interrelated discourses worked together in the cartographic image to portray the Kurds in a manner that generally supported and legitimated the dominant U.S. geopolitical position of a particular event. ... Read more

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Chapters: Greater Iran, Iranian Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia, Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests, Balochistan, List of Cities in Iran, Elburz Range Forest Steppe, Sistan Basin, Al-Fakkah Field, Bahu District, Golden Crescent, Darab, Yadavaran Field, Fereydan, Sisakht, Historical Regions of Armenia, Mehrshahr, Ganjnameh, Taleghan, Talyshistan, Katale Khor, Persian Iraq, Dashkasan, Iran Standard Time, Gwatar, Arasbaran, Amarlu, Mughan Plain, Extreme Points of Iran, Iranian Plate, Joshekan, Turkmen Sahra, Garmeh and Jajarm, Gerrus, Rosta, Babung, Baghu, Lajan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 160. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Greater Iran (in Persian: Irn-e Bozorg, or Irnzamn "Iranian soil") refers to the regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence. It roughly corresponds to the territory on the Iranian plateau, stretching from the Caucasus to the Indus River in Pakistan and conform to the historical understanding of the full territory of "Iran." It is also widely referred to as Greater Persia in European languages, while the Encyclopædia Iranica uses the term Iranian Cultural Continent. Because the concept is a cultural one, representing regions settled by Iranian tribes, it does not correspond to any particular political entity, andbecause it represents a late Bronze Age dispersionpredates such political entities by many centuries. For the Sassanids, in whose 3rd century inscriptions the term 'Iran' first appears as a political concept, the multinational Iranian state included Asia Minor but excluded territories east of the two Iranian salt desert basins. This situation is however reversed in the cultural context, i.e. that of the Iranian nation. Richard Nelson Frye defines Greater Iran as including "much of the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3978097 ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Kurdistan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Kurdistan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Kurdistan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Kurdistan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Between February and September 1988, the Iraqi government destroyed over 2000 Kurdish villages, killing somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 civilians and displacing many more. The operation was codenamed Anfal which literally means 'the spoils of war'. For the survivors of this campaign, Anfal did not end in September 1988: the aftermath of this catastrophe is as much a part of the Anfal story as the gas attacks, disappearances and life in the camps. This book examines Kurdish women's experience of violence, destruction, the disappearance of loved ones, and incarceration during the Anfal campaign. It explores the survival strategies of these women in the aftermath of genocide. By bringing together and highlighting women's own testimonies, Choman Hardi reconstructs the Anfal narrative in contrast to the current prevaling one which is highly politicised, simplified, and nationalistic. It also addresses women's silences about sexual abuse and rape in a patriarchal society which holds them responsible for having been a victim of sexual violence. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kurdistanis one of the thirty provinces of Iran, not to be confused with the greater geographical area of Iranian Kurdistan. The province of Kurdistan is 28,817 km² in area which encompasses just one-eighth of the Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran or Iranian Kurdistan. It is located in the west of Iran and bound by Iraq on the west, the province of west Azerbaijan to its north, Zanjan to the northeast and Kermanshah to the south. The capital of Kurdistan Province is the city of Sanandaj (Kurdish: Sinne). Other counties with their major cities are Marivan, Baneh, Saqqez, Qorveh, Bijar, Kamyaran, Dehgolan, Diwandarreh and Sarvabad. The rich, beautiful and mountainous lands of this area first encouraged Aryan tribes to settle in this region after their immigration to Iran. It was from here where the first plan to overthrow the Assyrians began, leading to their defeat in 612 BCE, and setting the stage for the commence of the Median empire. ... Read more

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Kurdistan (Kurdish: ????????/Kurdistan, literally meaning "the land of Kurds", formerly Curdia, Curdistan Ancient Corduene is an extensive plateau and mountainous area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by Kurds. It covers parts of eastern Turkey (Turkish Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Iranian Kurdistan) and part of northern Syria. It roughly encompasses the Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. From a political standpoint, Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained official recognition internationally as an autonomous federal entity. Kurds in Iran are also officially recognized as a minority, and there is a province by the name of Kurdistan in Iran. ... Read more

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In the last two decades, the impact of the ongoing communication revolution on economy, politics and culture has been a major theme in academic and media debates and in the policy-making circles of governments and international bodies. Although new media technologies are transforming the entire world including the Middle East, these debates have largely focused on Western societies.

This book provides the first study of the transformation of a Middle Eastern society, Kurdistan, in the context of the introduction of printing, recorded music, radio, television, and the Internet. It analyzes the complex and often conflictual interactions of media technologies, culture, statehood, nationalism and globalization.

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Demographics of Iran. Iranian peoples, Ethnic minorities inIran, Iranian Azeris, Iranian Kurdistan, Iranian Arabs,Armenian Iranians, Iranian Georgians, Iranian Kazakhs, Listof Iran cities by population, List of cities in Iran,Languages of Iran, Religion in Iran, Iranian citizensabroad, Iranian women, Greater Iran, Education in Iran,Health care in Iran, Culture of Iran, Economy of Iran ... Read more