Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Map of Kurdistan
  Coloured map of Kurdistan, produced by the Association Suisse Kurdistan (ASK) probably in the early 1980s, and showing Kurdistan surrounded by the hostile countries of Iraq, Iran and Turkey, whose threat is symbolised by depictions of tanks and armed soldiers pointing their weapons at the Kurdish territory. Slogans advocating for the liberation of the Kurdish people are printed in French, German, Kurmanji Kurdish and Turkish. The map includes the Turkish province of Hatay (formerly the Syrian sanjak of Alexandretta) on the Mediterranean coast as part of Kurdistan.
• Omar Sheikhmous letter to the British Government
• Pages from the Struggle of the Kurdish People in Iran, Section Two: The Feyli Kurds in History
  46-page booklet about the history of the Feyli Kurds in Iran
• Peshrew [پێشرەو] No. 2, September 1981
  Issue no 2 of the periodical Peshrew (Sweden) issued by Komala
• Photograph with annotation: "in Qaladiza of the wife of an armoured-car soldier, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "in Qaladiza of the wife of an armoured-car soldier, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Woman standing, holding onto tank.
• Photograph with annotation: "Kurdish Nomads, Van area, Turkey, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Kurdish Nomads, Van area, Turkey, 1981". Girl holds ropes of suspended, elongated barrel.
• Photograph with annotation: "'Arriving in Halabja', Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "'Arriving in Halabja', Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Boy stands under banner with inscription reading: "Martyrs City Welcome His Visitors Halabja Is No Less Than Heroshima". on the left side of the banner written PUK.
• Photograph with annotation: "a family in their ruined house, in Qaladiza, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "a family in their ruined house, in Qaladiza, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Two adults and three children sit atop a broken reinforced concrete structure.
• Photograph with annotation: "camp of nomadic Kurds in the mountains on sheep trail. Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated "camp of nomadic Kurds in the mountains on sheep trail. Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Men and women in amongst black and white sheep with hazy background.
• Photograph with annotation: "in a village, in the region of Mardin, Turkish Kurdistan, 1987".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "in a village, in the region of Mardin, Turkish Kurdistan, 1987". Two men and woman sitting on floor with rug / tapestry hanging on wall behind.
• Photograph of with annotation: "an old woman standing on the ruins of her house, Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "an old woman standing on the ruins of her house, Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Woman standing with ruined buildings and undergrowth in background.
• Photograph of a Peshmerga looking through a hole in the wall of a cell in what used to be a jail in Sulemanyah.
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of a Peshmerga looking through a hole in the wall of a cell in what used to be a jail in Sulemanyah. Kurdistan, Iraq, 1991.
• Photograph of Mustafa Barzani
  Photograph of Mulla Mustafa Barzani (1903-79) on his return to Baghdad in 1958
• Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli)
  Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with other women by a car
• Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) and fellow students, taken in 1955
  Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) and fellow students, taken in 1955
• Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with Ehmed Dilzar (leftist poet) and Qadir Reshid (MP)
  Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with Ehmed Dilzar (leftist poet) and Qadir Reshid (MP)
• Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with Nahîde Refîq Hilmî in 1955
  Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) and friends, with their biology teacher Nahîde Refîq Hilmî in 1955
• Photograph of the ..... of the Iraqi Security General in Sulamenyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991.
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of Photograph of the ..... of the Iraqi Security General in Sulamenyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991.
• Photograph of with annotation: "a woman attending to her washing on her dynamited house, Qaladiza, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "a woman attending to her washing on her dynamited house, Qaladiza, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Woman pegging clothes to suspended line atop cracked concrete surface.
• Photograph of with annotation: "an old woman on the ruins of her house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "an old woman on the ruins of her house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Woman standing with hands on hips, amongst rubble and undergrowth, looking into camera.
• Photograph of with annotation: "Kurdish refugees coming back from Iran at the border post of Haji Omaran. Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Kurdish refugees coming back from Iran at the border post of Haji Omaran. Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Front of Mercedes truck with children on top. Man crouched by roadside. Ruined building on top of embankment.
• Photograph with annotation: "a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, in Diana, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, in Diana, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Three men in foreground with music band and banners on stage behind.
• Photograph with annotation: "a list of family members killed by gas in March 1988, shown on the wall of a house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec annotated: "a list of family members killed by gas in March 1988, shown on the wall of a house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Man pointing to Arabic inscription on wall.
• Photograph with annotation: "at home with the Dervishes, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "at home with the Dervishes, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Man with live snake around his neck.
• Photograph with annotation: "in a grocer's shop of Kurdistan, close to Kars, Turkey, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "in a grocer's shop of Kurdistan, close to Kars, Turkey, 1998". Man and woman standing in front of box-laden shelves, looking into the camera.