Kurdistan

Understanding Syria Background President: Bashar al-Assad: Elected. Assad overtook his father as president, but his father had seized power in a coup. Capital: Damascus To understand Syria is to recognise a highly divided country. Ethnic groups and their religious practices are diverse. Islam is primarily divided into two denominations within Syria, Shia, and Sunni. Sunni Muslims make up the majority of the population. Much of the government practice a branch of Shia Islam and are called…

tone conveys that she does not believe in true love, and her life condition was not helping her to solve this problem. The word “Painstakingly” (L.12) shows that the social structure in Poland was hard during that time. In some countries such as Kurdistan often due to traditional and cultural boundaries that prohibit relationship between couples out of marriage, girls get depressed and sad that they cannot be free or choose the right person s they…

feminism, militarization and the circulation of an image and how the purpose of this image can change meaning as it circulates. Her childhood friend Andrea Wolf was an activist who went underground and was working in the free women's army for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Turkey when it was suspected that she was captured, tortured, killed and buried in a mass unmarked grave. Steyerl had managed to get a bad quality video from a Turkish television station of Andrea in Turkey talking…

The Islamic State is a large, violent, and Islamic organization that has recently emerged as the new face of terror following the Syrian revolution and the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Their main goal is to establish a global caliphate and unite the Ummah. In July 2014 the Islamic State started its own propaganda magazine called Dabiq. In the first issue there is a feature article entitled “From Hijrah to Khilafah”. This article accounts the history, methods, and motives behind the Islamic…

For some, the Arab spring (whether is understood to be successfully or not) certainly represent the turning point in relations in the Middle East. A hundred years since the creation of borders between the countries of the Levant, the Maghreb and the Middle East, there was their collapse. When one mentions the Middle East, it is seen as a huge area where ancient civilizations were, some of the oldest cities in the world, but also the young states of today. A hundred years after rendering the…

1. How have you found your style and has it changed since you started? I have drawing life and observations since I was 15 years old - mainly the human figure and mostly pencil drawings. I did this until I was 32 years old. I graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2002. There were periods in-between were I hardly drew at all. During my Masters studies at SVA, I started to write conversation quotes I overheard into my drawings. I also started to scan sketchbook drawings into…

Within the last century, two major conflicts have sparked. The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or more commonly known as Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK are a group of Kurds who seek to have an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. The PKK, formed in the 1970s and had been fighting ever since, killed over 40,000 innocent citizens just for land. Land is also a conflict throughout…

SMEs (Small & Medium Size Enterprises) do not have a specific definition. They are defined in different ways according to individuals or organizations. In a general prospective; an SME is a small or medium business, company or organization that is usually established by one individual or two as partners. A business with small/medium scale revenue, small/medium facility and a small number of employees can be considered an SME (Baenol, 1994). SMEs are considered one of the essential economical…

Following the barbaric invasion of the terrorist group, Islamic State, in Iraq further speculation has been circulated around the conception of Islam being the religion of terror and the motive behind the massacre of innocence around the world. As a result of this, and other events the serene religion of Islam have develop into the most embroiled religion to subsist in our society. Although there have been numerous predicaments that challenge the fundamental concept of peace in Islam, it should…

In regards to ethnic groups, 70-75% of the population is Turkish, 18% is Kurdish, and the rest is part of a minority group. Most of the country, 99.8%, practices the Muslim religion, and the other small percentage is mostly Christians and Jews. Their official language is Turkish but people do speak Kurdish and other minority languages as well. Turkey is located in Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Seam between Bulgaria and Georgia. It also borders the Aegean Sea…