KSSO launches new website!
Posted by KSSO in News on 06. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
The KSSO website has been re-launched with a fresh new design, providing richer content with images and videos, as well as links to follow KSSO on the popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.
Speaking at SOAS could be punished with a sentence from a Turkish court!
Posted by KSSO in Seminar on 04. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Leyla Zana, 1995 Sakharov Prize Lauréat, the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish Parliament, and former political prisoner has been sentenced again to 10 years in prison by a Turkish court. Come to discuss what we can do prevent her from being imprisoned again.
New communication technologies and Kurdish language and culture
Posted by KSSO in Seminar on 04. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
The three prominent Kurdish intellectuals, Dr. Amir Hassanpour, Hassan Ghazian and Jaffer Sheyholislami will discuss the use of new communication technologies by stateless Kurds in different parts of disputed Kurdistan and in Diaspora communities. They will debate the role of satellite televisions and new media (internet) on constructing and transforming collective identities, language and the culture of Kurds.
Kurdish Society at SOAS and KSSO condemn the sentence against Leyla Zana
Posted by KSSO in Campaigns, News on 01. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Kurdish Studies and Student Organisation (KSSO), is an umbrella organisation of UK-based Kurdish student societies. We aim to work with UK educational institutions and university communities to support and promote research on, about or by Kurdish peoples. KSSO has no political affiliations and aims to act as a neutral platform of intellectual debate on Kurdish matters.
We have invited many professionals and academics to give talks on varied subjects on the Kurdish language, culture, media and minority rights in the Middle East. We have also organised a number of seminars on the participation of Kurdish women in the cultural, social and political life in their homeland and in Diaspora. One of our guests was Ms Leyla Zana, a prominent Kurdish politician from the Northern Kurdish Region (Turkish Kurdistan) and Prof. Mary Davis of London Metropolitan University to talk about a peaceful, political solution on Turkey’s Kurdish question.
Call out for Kurdish actor and actress
Posted by KSSO in Community on 01. Jun, 2009 | 3 Comments
Evin Films is currently casting for their new film “Chaplin of the Mountains” and are looking for a Kurdish actor and an actress. Please read this article to find out more..
