#Kurdistan Iraq

[kristinhelberg]

Iran vows retaliation for strike in Syria, strikes hit US troops in Iraq

Interview DW 21.1.2024

(5´15 Min. ab Min 1´06)

[bellabayushki]

Two years later, and this is just as relevant as ever.

[mioritic]

Two sword-shaped ("sipa") amulets engraved with the Hebrew names of angels, names of G-d, and initials of verses, sewn into clothing for the protection of children whose siblings had passed away 

Iraqi Kurdistan or Iran, late 19th - early 20th century

via Kedem Auctions

[bobemajses]

Kurdish Jewish man wearing a machine-embroidered suit and an overcoat ('abayye) in the style of the Aqra region. Jerusalem, 1980.

[anyahita]

Middle Eastern kids deserve to wake up to the sounds of birds chirping, not bombs and airstrikes

Middle Eastern kids should be carrying books and flowers, not the dead bodies of their loved ones

Middle Eastern kids deserve to run the streets in joy and laughter, not run away from bombs

[dougielombax]

So.

Today marks 36 years since the beginning of the Anfal Genocide in Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s regime slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans and Shabaks.

Around 100,000 people at the least would be killed.

It would last from February to September of 1988. During the late stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

Largely consisting of mass killings, chemical attacks and forced displacement.

Many in Iraq sadly continue to deny it to this day. Predictably. As do Saddam Hussein’s many idiot apologists on the internet.

I’ll leave some sources from this year and the last few years here for additional information.

Some sources also focus on the Assyrian victims too.

Above: A monument dedicated to the memory of the Assyrian victims of the Anfal genocide in the village of Gonda Kosa.

Just to remind any idiots who think Saddam and his cronies were kind to the Assyrians. They were certainly not!

Feel free to reblog.

Reblog the shit out of this!

[holidaysincambodia]

A Kurdish Jewish woman in 1976

[gliklofhameln]

Rosh Hashanah greeting card from Zakko, Iraqi Kurdistan, 19th century.

[stupidheadwisp]

dont forget ur daily click!

[anarchotahdigism]

The Persian New Year begins at the end of this month and I hope that liberation comes for people this year.

May all Iranian peoples be free, may we see the death of the Perseosupremacist theofascist Iranian regime, may the pursuit of liberation drag all the bloodthirsty power-worshippers to deep cold soil and insodoing bring life and love to everyone everywhere. May all peoples be free. Jin, jiyan, azadi.

[jojou2]

يتشابه الأمازيغ والكورد في العديد من جوانب حياتهم اليومية، مما يعكس عمق الروابط الثقافية بينهما. في مجال اللباس، نجد أن الملابس التقليدية لكل من الأمازيغ والكورد تتسم بالألوان الزاهية والزخارف اليدوية المعقدة. تُعتبر هذه الأزياء رمزاً للفخر والهوية الثقافية، وهي غالباً ما تُرتدى في المناسبات الخاصة والاحتفالات

فيما يتعلق بالرقص، يمتاز كلا الشعبين برقصات جماعية تُؤدى في المناسبات الاجتماعية والاحتفالات. هذه الرقصات، مثل رقصة "آحيدوس" الأمازيغية والرقصات الكردية التقليدية، تُعبر عن الفرح والتكاتف بين أفراد المجتمع

عند التحدث عن الأكل، نجد أن المطبخ الأمازيغي والكردي يشترك في استخدام مكونات طبيعية وأطباق تعتمد على الحبوب والخضروات واللحوم. كلا المطبخين يقدمان وجبات شهية مثل الكسكس الأمازيغي والكباب الكردي، اللذين يعكسان

التراث الزراعي والرعوي لكل من الشعبين

العادات الاجتماعية لدى الأمازيغ والكورد متقاربة للغاية، فكلا الشعبين يولي أهمية كبيرة للعائلة والضيافة. القيم الاجتماعية مثل احترام الكبار وتقديم المساعدة للجار تعتبر من الأعمدة الأساسية في ثقافة الأمازيغ والكورد

لهذا، يمكن لأي شخص يزور كردستان أن يشعر وكأنه في وسط الجزائر ، حيث يتجلى التشابه الكبير في الثقافات والعادات اليومية بين الأمازيغ والكورد

منقووول

[rapeculturerealities]

Murdered and forgotten: Iraqi victims of gender-based violence

In a sun-baked cemetery in northern Iraq, silence lingers over a forsaken corner devoid of mourners, where women killed in gender-based violence rest in unmarked graves.

Domestic violence and femicide have long plagued Iraq's conservative society, including through so-called "honor killings" — the murders of women deemed to have breached patriarchal social norms, often at the hands of close relatives.

[nesyanast]

Refugee Kurdish Jews in Tehran, Iran 1950

[serinyxx]

[bobemajses]

Jewish toddler wearing an amulet known as a Shaddai or Yahadonai, Iraqi Kurdistan, ca. 1920

[safije]

A Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS, Iraq-Syrian border 2014.

Yazidis are a Kurdish ethnoreligious minority in Iraq. They believe God created the world but entrusted the Peacock Angel Tawûsî Melek to have power over it. When God made the race of man, he commanded all angels to bow to Adam but the only one who disobeyed was Tawûsî Melek.

"How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust"

This story is similar to the one of Iblis (aka Lucifer or Satan) in the Quran, but unlike Iblis, Yazidis believe Tawûsî Melek to be a source of good not evil.