#kurdistan

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Jews of Kurdistan, 1940s, by Anthony Kersting.

For much of Kurdish history, Jews were an integral part of cultural life in Kurdistan. Tradition relates that the Aramaic-speaking Kurdish Jews are the descendants of the Ten Tribes from the time of the Assyrian exile 2500 years ago. In the first century CE, the kingdom of Adiabene in Iranian Kurdistan became a Jewish one, after the monarch’s wife converted to Judaism and encouraged her subjects to do the same. It lasted until 115 CE, when Roman forces crushed its leaders, but Kurdish Jews continue to regard its descendants as part of their community. In the 17th century, Iraqi Kurdistan’s Jewish community had a female religious leader, Asenath Barzani, who was a renowned Torah scholar. Until their emigration to Israel in the 1950s, tens of thousands of Jews lived in isolated Kurdish mountain villages in harmony and friendship with their Christian and Muslim neighbors. Most worked as farmers and merchants, and their insular communities developed distinct customs, many of which have now vanished.

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Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

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From Levantine_gay on insta

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[rorvk]

several drawings I did of different religious/traditional head coverings in west and Central Asia !!!

[victusinveritas]

Kurdish and Turkish shepherds wearing the kepenek, a traditional felt shepherding cloak.

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Kurdistan - by Kazuyoshi Nomachi (1946), Japanese

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kurdish miku. she would destroy a plate of yaprax

[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

[pangeen]

" The Moon is a loyal Companion "

// © Darya Kawa Mirza

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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

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Ketubah, Jewish marriage contract, from Cizre, Southeast Anatolia (Turkish Kurdistan), 1924

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Yazidi Sex Slave Escaped ISIS And Burned Her Burqa

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How is it that Turkey gets absolutely no shit for being a imperialist power based in Europe literally founded on genocide? Just wondering. Is it because they changed their name?

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A village girl, Palangan, Kurdistan, Iran. At the beginning of spring, Kurdish people according to their customs and culture, celebrate an annual celebration called Nowruz or kindling fire.

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