Fairuz AbdelKareem known as Fairuz Kokall, a guitar aficionado talked to our Art and Culture contributor, Christiane Waked about the journey that led her to become a flamenco musician in Lebanon. C.W: Your real name is Payruza but chose to be called Fairuz
Dear Colleagues, First let me welcome you on behalf of the “National Congress of the Western Armenians” and the “19 January Initiative” to this very important and challenging meeting. I welcome all Kurdish participants and hail their courage and determination for their unbiased
Many members of the Kurdish community in Lebanon cannot give a solid answer to the question of whether they consider themselves Kurdish first and foremost, or Lebanese. It’s a conundrum shared by many other national and ethnic groups in the country, who arrived in
Armenian ethnologist Hranoush Kharatyan represents an interesting study on sense of identity of Alevi communities in Dersim during Ottoman and Republic Era in his articles about the search for identity in Dersim called “Identities of Dersim” and “The Alevized Armenians in Dersim“. But
The Kurdish issue and Ankara’s policy The Turkish Army with the support of the airforce of the coalition led by USA on August 24th launched an operation to liberate Jarablus city in the northern Syria from militants of the terrorist group “Islamic State.”