Posted by KSSO in Community, News on 05. Aug, 2010 | 3 Comments
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chool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London offers Kurdish for beginners. If you are interested in learning Kurdish Kurmanji, please apply now. The aim of the course is to provide a thorough introduction to contemporary Kurdish. Read More…
The charges are based on an article Beşikçi wrote for the Contemporary Law and Society magazine, the publication of the Istanbul Branch of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD).
Beşikçi and also the editorial manager of the magazine, Zeycan Balcı Şimşek, are each facing prison sentences of up to 7.5 years because of the article entitled “The right of nations to self determination and the Kurds”. Read More…
Please participate in the newly formed solidarity campaign
“A chance meeting in midlife led to a lifelong interest in an obscure, long-oppressed ethnic group.”
On the 30th of May, 2010, Vera B. Saeedpour, a longtime friend to and scholar on the Kurdish nation died at the age of 80. She spent many years of her life dedicated to highlighting and raising awareness of the plight of the Kurdish nation in the Middle East, as well as helping to preserve Kurdish culture through the establishment of a library and museum.
In 1981 the first Kurdish Program in the United States was established in New York City by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, widow of Homayoun Saeedpour, a Kurd from Sanandaj in Iran, with the aim of informing Americans of the existence and plight of his people, the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Initially operating under the aegis of Cultural Survival Inc., the Program subsequently established the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America solely to support the Kurdish Library and Museum.
Amanj S. Yarwaessi
We are recruiting four female volunteers to work with us in providing professional and culturally sensitive advice and psychological support for Kurdish women who face violence. Three (3) volunteers will be working on counseling and one (1) will be working on advice and casework.
As an advice worker you will provide free, impartial and confidential advice to our clients on a wide range of issues (debt, housing, employment, welfare, immigration) including violence against women. You will research individual cases, assess problems and identify possible courses of action, guide clients to decide on the best course of action, mediate on their behalf, refer clients to other sources of help and keep up to date with appropriate legislation and policies.
Deadline: 1st September 2010 Read More…
[ March 20, 2010; 17:00 to 19:00. ] 
Seminar on Kurdistan in Iraq – progress and challenges
Speaker: Ms. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman of Kurdistan Regional Government’s High Representative to the UK
Chair: Dr. Konrad Hirschler, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East, SOAS Read More…
Posted by KSSO in Calender, News on 17. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
[ September 13, 2010; 18:00 to 20:00. ] You are invited to this seminar/workshop which will report on the findings of a three-year ESRC research project conducted by Dr Jane Holgate, Janroj Keles and Leena Kumarappan Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University and Professor Anna Pollert from the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England.
Date/time: Monday 13 September 2010 2pm to 6pm
Venue: TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Read More…
Posted by KSSO in Community, Research on 19. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Ms Shadi Hessami, a PhD student at SOAS, supervised by Professor Annabelle Sreberny, is looking for Kurdish research participants in London to interview for her research project on the socio-political and socio-cultural impacts of Kurdish media on Kurdish diaspora. . Read More…
Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community, News, Research, Seminar on 11. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
[ July 16, 2010; 17:00 to 19:00. ] 
Images of working lives: Experiences of Kurdish migrants in London
Photo Exhibition
Organized by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Date: Friday 16th- 23rd July 2010 ( Exhibition opening reception 5pm on Friday 16th July 2010)
Venue: RenkArt Centre, 86 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington N16 7PA
Images of working lives is an exhibition held as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project conducted by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University to highlight the working conditions of an ‘invisible’ community, Kurdish Diaspora, in London. Read More…
Posted by KSSO in Calender, News on 19. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
[ June 24, 2010; 18:00 to 20:00. ]
You are kindly invited to our forthcoming concert and film screening and seminar in solidarity with imprisoned Kurdish children in Turkey
Talk: Ms Milena Buyum, Campaigner on Turkey for Amnesty International and Mr Ali Has, Lawyer
Concert:Aygul Erce, singer-song writer
Film Screening:‘Taslanan Vicdanlar/Brutal Consciences’ by Cenk Örtülü & Zeynel Koç Turkish and Kurdish with English subtitles, Running time 50 minutes. Read More…
Posted by Janroj in News on 11. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
“Oral scripture”: the construction of sacred texts of the minority religions of Kurdistan
Tuesday 15 June, 2-6pm, seminar room 1, IAIS, Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter
The dominance of orality in the performance and transmission of the Yezidi and Yaresan religions of Kurdistan and Western Iran has been the object of scholarly interest for almost two decades. This workshop will provide the occasion for a detailed discussion of the sacred texts of these religions – how their sacrality is constructed, performed and conceived, and what marks them out from other elements of spoken discourse. It will bring together specialists on the two religions and their texts, and on Kurdish discourse (in its various dialects) more generally and reflect their research currently in progress.
The workshop will take the form of an informal round-table discussion, centred around the following presentations Read More…
Posted by KSSO in Calender, News on 07. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
[ June 7, 2010; 18:00 to 19:30. ] You are kindly invited to attend the forthcoming KSSO seminar and book launch
The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan
Speaker: Carol Prunhuber, journalist and author of the book “The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan”
Seminar abstract
Ms Carol Prunhuber, a Venezuelan author and journalist explores the life of the legendary Kurdish leader, Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in her book titled “The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan”. Read More…
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