kurdistan

Examines the economic and political issues facing the Kurdish people today.

Attempts to create a national archive for the Kurds through a collection of photographs, documents, articles, memoirs, and other materials that together chronicle the history of the people who have been without a country since Kurdistan was eliminated at the end of World War I.

Describes the experiences of one Kurdish family that fled their home in northern Iraq and moved to a new life in California.

Examines the economic and political issues facing the Kurdish people and describes their oppression under Dictator Saddam Hussein, their history, government, and communities in a post-Saddam world.

Explains the lasting impact the Treaty of S?vres had on the world, discussing how the borders created by that treaty more than seventy years ago continue to be a source of conflict today.

Traces the history of the Kurdish people, who live mainly in the mountainous region where the borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey converge, and discusses their struggles to preserve their culture and establish their own country of Kurdistan.

Presents a historical background on the Kurds while looking at controversies surrounding the group's treatment by Iraq and Turkey and whether the Kurds should be granted an independent state, and features four personal narratives.