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US: Experts discuss creation of Kurd nation
US: Experts discuss creation of Kurd nation
Kurdistan TV
If the Kurdish population in Kurdistan region (northern Iraq) and Turkey were to form an official nation, there is a strong possibility it would be the second non-Islamic state in the Middle East, Robert Olson said.
This topic, along with other issues facing the Kurdish population in the Middle East, was discussed during the opening presentation of the 2007 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics and Society conference on Thursday.
"It's a zigzag process but development in Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey is historically unprecedented," said Olson, a University of Kentucky professor. "There is lots of development in Kurdistan, but little development in Iraq proper." Kurdistan is a term used to refer to the area of land where the Kurds live. The area overlaps parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The only other non-Islamic nation in the Middle East is Israel.
Olson emphasized the competition between Kurdish nationalism and capitalism. An independent nation may be founded in Iraq if the conditions between these two factors become sufficient.
Dr. Robert Olsen, Kurdish Politics specialist from the University of Kentucky, delivers a speech at the Hinkley Institute of Politics to start off the Middle East and Central Asia conference.
Whether a Kurdish nation would truly be non-Islamic was a matter of debate among the international scholars attending the conference in the Union.
"Professor Olson took the first approach and in broad lines, I agree that there will probably be secular logic to follow the development," said Üner Daglier, an assistant professor at Cag University in Turkey.
The presentation helped others better understand the Kurds.
"I'm not very familiar with the situation in Kurdistan, but I have friends who were Kurds, so I understood some of the situations and it was a little more personal," said Kyle Stegerwald, a sophomore in computer science and history.
Olson compared the Kurdish situation to the Zionist movement, which led creation of Israel 31 years later.
"The policies pursued by the U.S. lead to stronger state-formulating possibilities for the Kurds," Olson said.
The Kurds can claim many different identities, Olson said, including Islamic.
"Political Islam is a dynamic dissenting force against reigning powers," Olson said. "(The Kurds) recognize non-religious objectives they want to achieve and non-religious principles will remain dominant."
The conference continues until Sept. 8. All the presentations are held on campus and are free and open to the public.
Daily.Utah.Chronicle
Kurdistan TV
If the Kurdish population in Kurdistan region (northern Iraq) and Turkey were to form an official nation, there is a strong possibility it would be the second non-Islamic state in the Middle East, Robert Olson said.
This topic, along with other issues facing the Kurdish population in the Middle East, was discussed during the opening presentation of the 2007 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics and Society conference on Thursday.
"It's a zigzag process but development in Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey is historically unprecedented," said Olson, a University of Kentucky professor. "There is lots of development in Kurdistan, but little development in Iraq proper." Kurdistan is a term used to refer to the area of land where the Kurds live. The area overlaps parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The only other non-Islamic nation in the Middle East is Israel.
Olson emphasized the competition between Kurdish nationalism and capitalism. An independent nation may be founded in Iraq if the conditions between these two factors become sufficient.
Dr. Robert Olsen, Kurdish Politics specialist from the University of Kentucky, delivers a speech at the Hinkley Institute of Politics to start off the Middle East and Central Asia conference.
Whether a Kurdish nation would truly be non-Islamic was a matter of debate among the international scholars attending the conference in the Union.
"Professor Olson took the first approach and in broad lines, I agree that there will probably be secular logic to follow the development," said Üner Daglier, an assistant professor at Cag University in Turkey.
The presentation helped others better understand the Kurds.
"I'm not very familiar with the situation in Kurdistan, but I have friends who were Kurds, so I understood some of the situations and it was a little more personal," said Kyle Stegerwald, a sophomore in computer science and history.
Olson compared the Kurdish situation to the Zionist movement, which led creation of Israel 31 years later.
"The policies pursued by the U.S. lead to stronger state-formulating possibilities for the Kurds," Olson said.
The Kurds can claim many different identities, Olson said, including Islamic.
"Political Islam is a dynamic dissenting force against reigning powers," Olson said. "(The Kurds) recognize non-religious objectives they want to achieve and non-religious principles will remain dominant."
The conference continues until Sept. 8. All the presentations are held on campus and are free and open to the public.
Daily.Utah.Chronicle
Leszek Dziêgiel: Polish Kurdologist/Ethnologist
Leszek Dziêgiel: Polish Kurdologist/Ethnologist
Leszek Dziegiel was born in 1931 in a middle class family. His father was a teacher who died in the Nazi concentration camp when he was a teenager. He spent World War II in Lvov (Poland). In 1945 he had to move from Lvov to Katowice (Upper Silesia). There he finished the secondary school in 1950 experiencing political chicanery himself for declining to join the organisation of the communist youth. Due to this pressure, in 1950 he was denied to study history at the Krakow University. He then began to study archaeology and ethnology. In 1955 he received his MA diploma in ethnology with excellent results.
Since he did not decide to join the Polish Communist Party, his application for doctoral studies was rejected and his scientific carrier was blocked temporarily. In 1955-1959 he founded with his friends an illustrated monthly magazine. It was closed by the authorities because of political reasons.
He had to move from Krakow to Upper Silesia. There he worked as a teacher and free lance journalist. After his return to Krakow in 1970 he was offered a post of researcher at the University of Agriculture. Finally he received his Ph.D. diploma at the Krakow University, Faculty of History & Philosophy. In 1977, 1978, and 1980 he did his field research in Iraqi Kurdistan as the member of Polish agro-economic team of experts. His task was anthropological survey of five chosen areas in Dohuk, Sulaimania, and Arbil governorates. He wrote a book in English, "Rural Community of Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan Facing Modernisation" in 1981 (Krakow) and in 1982 he got his habilitation diploma at the Poznan University.
From 1983 he has worked at the Institute of Ethnology as full professor of ethnology and the director (to 1999). Inside the Institute, he has been the head of the Dept. of European and Middle Eastern Studies. He has been also the member of some editorial boards and the all-national Committee of Ethnology. Among his research areas are Political and cultural problems in Kurdistan. Kurdish independence aspirations against the political background of the Near East and Kurdish diaspora in the West. He is co-founder of the Polish-Kurdish Association in Kracow in Poland. Selected Works on Kurdistan
- Rural Community of Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan Facing Modernisation. Studia i Materia³y Akademii Rolniczej 7, Kraków 1981.
- Traditional food and daily meals in Iraqi Kurdistan today". Ethnologia Polona 7 (1981): 99-113.
- "Hygiene and attention to personal appearance among the Iraqi Kurds". Archiv Orientalni 1.50 (1982): 43-50.
- "Kurdish costumes and their europeanisation". Acta Ethnographica 33.1-4 (1984-85): 89-108.
- "Villages et petites villes kurdes dans l"Irak actuel". Studia Kurdica 1-5. Paris 1988. 127-156.
- "Changes of the contemporary villages in the Near East from the perspective of a Polish ethnologist. Questions and doubts". Ethnologia Polona 17 (1992): 63-69.
- Wêze³ kurdyjski. Kultura-dzieje-walka o przetrwanie (The Kurdian Knot. Culture-History-Struggle for Survival). Kraków 1992. 446 pp.
Address
Prof. dr habil. Leszek Dziegiel
Institute of Ethnology, Jagiellonian University
Grodzka 52, 31-044 Krakow, Poland
http://www.uj.edu.pl/IE/dziegiel.htm
Leszek Dziegiel was born in 1931 in a middle class family. His father was a teacher who died in the Nazi concentration camp when he was a teenager. He spent World War II in Lvov (Poland). In 1945 he had to move from Lvov to Katowice (Upper Silesia). There he finished the secondary school in 1950 experiencing political chicanery himself for declining to join the organisation of the communist youth. Due to this pressure, in 1950 he was denied to study history at the Krakow University. He then began to study archaeology and ethnology. In 1955 he received his MA diploma in ethnology with excellent results.
Since he did not decide to join the Polish Communist Party, his application for doctoral studies was rejected and his scientific carrier was blocked temporarily. In 1955-1959 he founded with his friends an illustrated monthly magazine. It was closed by the authorities because of political reasons.
He had to move from Krakow to Upper Silesia. There he worked as a teacher and free lance journalist. After his return to Krakow in 1970 he was offered a post of researcher at the University of Agriculture. Finally he received his Ph.D. diploma at the Krakow University, Faculty of History & Philosophy. In 1977, 1978, and 1980 he did his field research in Iraqi Kurdistan as the member of Polish agro-economic team of experts. His task was anthropological survey of five chosen areas in Dohuk, Sulaimania, and Arbil governorates. He wrote a book in English, "Rural Community of Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan Facing Modernisation" in 1981 (Krakow) and in 1982 he got his habilitation diploma at the Poznan University.
From 1983 he has worked at the Institute of Ethnology as full professor of ethnology and the director (to 1999). Inside the Institute, he has been the head of the Dept. of European and Middle Eastern Studies. He has been also the member of some editorial boards and the all-national Committee of Ethnology. Among his research areas are Political and cultural problems in Kurdistan. Kurdish independence aspirations against the political background of the Near East and Kurdish diaspora in the West. He is co-founder of the Polish-Kurdish Association in Kracow in Poland. Selected Works on Kurdistan
- Rural Community of Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan Facing Modernisation. Studia i Materia³y Akademii Rolniczej 7, Kraków 1981.
- Traditional food and daily meals in Iraqi Kurdistan today". Ethnologia Polona 7 (1981): 99-113.
- "Hygiene and attention to personal appearance among the Iraqi Kurds". Archiv Orientalni 1.50 (1982): 43-50.
- "Kurdish costumes and their europeanisation". Acta Ethnographica 33.1-4 (1984-85): 89-108.
- "Villages et petites villes kurdes dans l"Irak actuel". Studia Kurdica 1-5. Paris 1988. 127-156.
- "Changes of the contemporary villages in the Near East from the perspective of a Polish ethnologist. Questions and doubts". Ethnologia Polona 17 (1992): 63-69.
- Wêze³ kurdyjski. Kultura-dzieje-walka o przetrwanie (The Kurdian Knot. Culture-History-Struggle for Survival). Kraków 1992. 446 pp.
Address
Prof. dr habil. Leszek Dziegiel
Institute of Ethnology, Jagiellonian University
Grodzka 52, 31-044 Krakow, Poland
http://www.uj.edu.pl/IE/dziegiel.htm
KRG Poland representative promotes Kurdistan at Krynica Economic Forum
KRG Poland representative promotes Kurdistan at Krynica Economic Forum
» Mr Ziyad Raoof,
the KRG's Representative to Poland
Krynica, Poland – (KRG.org) – Mr Ziyad Raoof, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to Poland, last week participated in the 17th annual Krynica Economic Forum, the biggest political forum in Central and Eastern Europe and known as the Davos of the East.
Mr Raoof told decision-makers at the forum, “The Kurdistan Region is secure and stable, it is the side of Iraq that is rarely seen in the media. It is an emerging democracy with a parliamentary political system. The KRG wants to cooperate and have good relations with many countries and with the European Union, as determined in the Iraqi Constitution.”
The KRG Representative also told companies that the Kurdistan is open for business in many sectors, especially since the Region’s parliament passed a very foreign investor-friendly investment law last year.
The theme of this year’s meeting was “Europe - Crisis, Changes or Chances?”. The main issues discussed were energy resources and security in Central and Eastern Europe, investments and European financial integration. Some of the discussions have also focused on economic relations between the EU and Russia.
Mr Raoof was invited by Mr Zygmunt Berdychowski, the Chairman of the Economic Forum Programme Council. The forum hosted more than 1,800 guests from over 60 countries. Several EU Commissioners, including Günter Verheugen, Danuta Hubner and Dalia Grybauskaite attended, as well as Zyta Gilowska, Poland’s finance minister, Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland and Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic.
This was the third successive year that the KRG took part in the forum. Mr Raoof has been asked by the organisers to host a panel discussion at next year’s event.
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