The battles of Sardarabad,* Bash Abaran, and Gharakilisa: Our Existential Battle and Our Path to Pioneer Democracy (By Madeleine Mezagopian)

In 1918 the year our Armenian ancestors, including the grandparents of this author, were fleeing getting massacred at the hands of Turkish rulers and heading towards any safe destination to survive and preserve their Armenian identity. Armenians in part of motherland Armenia were

Dreams of Independence: Reflections on the Eve of Kurdish Referendum (By Heather Miller)

I first came to Kurdistan in late July of 2014. My first month was colored with constant conversations and anxiety surrounding ISIS and it’s seizure of Kurdish land. My television was fixed on news stations as my colleagues and I watched more and

Turkey and Iran may not oppose an Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum as long as Kurds play their cards right (By Christiane Waked)

It is not a mystery that all eyes are going to be turned on the residents of Kurdish-controlled areas in Northern Iraq as they are preparing to vote on 25 September in a referendum on their preference for the future of the Kurdistan Region of

Kurds in Lebanon rally in favor of the referendum

The Lebanese branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party has organized a solidarity gathering in Martyr’s square for the “Independence referendum” that will be held in Kurdish controlled parts of Northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan) on the 25th of this September. (17/9/2017)      

Armenia: The Resurrection of a Nation (By Yeghia Tashjian)

When God, who is forever free, Breathed life into my earthly frame, From that first day, by His free will When I a living soul became, A babe upon my mother’s, breast, Ere power of speech was given to me, Even then I