Episodes

  • Episode 16.3: Prof. Amir Hassanpour's Talk on Palestine in 2012

    Episode 16.3: Prof. Amir Hassanpour's Talk on Palestine in 2012
    Jul 19 2021
    This is the third part of a three-parts episode on the history of Kurdish-Palestinian relationship. In this part, you listen to the audio file of a talk by the late Professor Amir Hassanpour about Palestine originally titled "The Geopolitical Context of Palestine and the Israeli State." This talk was presented in 2012 at the Annual General Meeting of Independent Jewish Voices, a grassroots organization based in Canada that, as described on their website, “is grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism and advocates for justice and peace for all in Israel-Palestine.” Professor Amir Hassanpour was a long-time friend and comrade of the Palestinian People and their struggle, and an outstanding example of solidarity with Palestinians among Kurds. Link to the original video: https://vimeo.com/52200739 For a list of Palestinian musicians who echo the Palestinian resistance see: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2304470/echoes-of-resistance-8-palestinian-musicians-you-should-have-on-your-playlist Image: Internationalist Commune in Rojava Music: Raj'een by Nai Barghouti
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    25 mins
  • Episode 16.2: Palestina, Kurdistan! Intifada, Serhildan! w/ Elif Genc

    Episode 16.2: Palestina, Kurdistan! Intifada, Serhildan! w/ Elif Genc
    Jul 19 2021
    This is the second part of a three-parts episode on the history of Kurdish-Palestinian relationship. In this part, I continue discussing the relationship between the Kurdish and Palestinian struggles for self-determination with Elif Genc. Elif is a PhD student in politics at the New School for Social Research working on Kurdish struggle in the diaspora and an adjunct professor of politics at St. John’s University and Marymount College in New York. She is also an activist in the Kurdish women’s freedom movement in Canada and the United States. She recently wrote a piece on Kurdish-Palestinian movements relationship with a focus on more recent development and the politics involved in a special issue on Kurdistan in Middle East Report. Image: Internationalist Commune in Rojava Music: Filistine by Ciwan Haco ft. ? Cenga Gel by Ciwan Haco
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    33 mins
  • Episode 16.1: The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian-Kurdish Affiliation, w/ Dr. Abed Takriti

    Episode 16.1: The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian-Kurdish Affiliation, w/ Dr. Abed Takriti
    Jul 19 2021
    This is the first part of a three-parts episode on the history of Kurdish-Palestinian relationship. In this part, I talk to Dr. Abdel Razzaq (Abed) Takriti about his chapter in a forthcoming book titled “The Political and Cultural History of Kurds.” This book, edited by Amir Harrak, will be published by Peter Lang, and it is dedicated to the prominent Kurdish scholar Professor Amir Hassanpour, who was a long-time friend and comrade of the Palestinian People and their struggle. Dr Takriti in his chapter in this book titled “The Kurd and the Wind: The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian-Kurdish Affiliation,” talks about the relationship between the renowned Palestinian poet Mahmood Darwish and the prominent Kurdish poet and writer from Rojava, Salim Barakat. Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, Associate Professor at the Department of History, and founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies, University of Houston. His research focuses on the history of revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state-building in the modern Arab world as well as on global histories of empire and anti-colonialism. Image: Internationalist Commune Webpage Music: The Kurd has Nothing But the Wind by Salah Ammo & Peter Gabis
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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • نوسخەی کوردی ١: باشووری کوردستان لە نێوان گەندەڵی و گەنجانی سەرشەقام - وتووێژ لەگەڵ کەماڵ چۆمانی

    نوسخەی کوردی ١: باشووری کوردستان لە نێوان گەندەڵی و گەنجانی سەرشەقام - وتووێژ لەگەڵ کەماڵ چۆمانی
    Dec 14 2020
    لە ئەپیزۆدی یەکەمی بەشی سۆرانی نوسخەی کوردی باسی باشووری کوردستان دەکەین. میوانی ئەورۆمان کەماڵ چۆمانی یە. چۆمانی نوسەرە لە کوردستان تایمزە و پێشتریش توێژەر بووە لە پەیمانگەی تەحریر بۆ توێژینەوە لە سیاسەتی رۆژهەڵاتی ناوەڕاست لە واشنتن. لینکی کەمپەینی ئۆنلاین: https://bit.ly/2K3mi52 سروودی دەستپێک: ''کوردایەتی'' بە دەنگی بورهان مەجید گورانی دوایی: ''گەواد'' بە دەنگی کاریگەر
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    49 mins
  • Episode 15: Youth on the Streets in Iraqi Kurdistan against Corruption- Interview with Kamal Chomani

    Episode 15: Youth on the Streets in Iraqi Kurdistan against Corruption- Interview with Kamal Chomani
    Dec 14 2020
    In this episode, I host Kamal Chomani, a Kurdish Journalist from Başur, or Iraqi Kurdistan, to talk about the latest wave of protests in Başur and the social and political context behind it. Chomani is a former non-resident fellow at the Tahir Institute for the Middle East Policy and he is an Editor of the Kurdistan Times, an online political magazine. By the end of the episode, Chomani mentions an online petition that you can find it here: https://bit.ly/2K3mi52 Song: "Gewad" by Kariger
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    47 mins
  • Episode 14: Rojhelat - Iran and the Kurdish Struggle for Self-Determination

    Episode 14: Rojhelat - Iran and the Kurdish Struggle for Self-Determination
    Nov 3 2020
    In this episode, I will talk about Rojhelat, Eastern Kurdistan or the Kurdish part of Iran, and the Kurdish struggle for self-determination in this part of Kurdistan. This episode is based on a recent article that I wrote for a special issue of the Middle East Report, MERIP, called “Kurdistan: One and Many.”
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    49 mins
  • Nusxeya Kurdî: Beşa Şeşemîn - Hevpeyvîn li gel Tahir Baykuşak

    Nusxeya Kurdî: Beşa Şeşemîn - Hevpeyvîn li gel Tahir Baykuşak
    Sep 7 2020
    Di vê beşê de, ez bi lêkolîner Tahir Baykuşak re li ser Kurdên Stenbolê yên di dewra Dewleta Osmanîyan de li Stenbolê jîyayîn axivîm. Hûn ê di vê beşê de şexsîyet, mekan û komeleyên wê demê nas bikin. Muzîk: Mehmet Atli - Bazdam Bazdam
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Episode 13: Vanguards of Modern Kurdish Music

    Episode 13: Vanguards of Modern Kurdish Music
    Aug 21 2020
    In this episode, I talk about the leading figures of the modern Kurdish music such as Qadir Dîlan, Koma Wetan, Tîpî Musîqay Silêmanî, and Koma Amed among others.
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    1 hr and 5 mins