Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• 'Yadgari Lawan' and 'Diyari Lawan'
  Issues of Kurdish magazines 'Yadgari Lawan' [Memorial of Youth] and 'Diyari Lawan' [Gift of Youth], published in Baghdad
• [Invitation to a general meeting of Kurds in London]
  One-page handwritten Arabic invitation dated 16 May 1966 and addressed to Kurds living in London. It announces a general meeting at the Air Terminal Hotel in South Kensington to hear visitors, including Dr Mahmoud Othman, discuss the Kurdish revolution and its political and military situation.
• [Open letter on the Palestinian question and the Kurdish struggle]
  Two-page handwritten Arabic open letter issued by the Sweden branch on 21 January 1977. Addressed to the Kurdish public, it discusses the Palestinian revolution, regional political developments and their relationship to the Kurdish struggle, and ends with calls for solidarity and resistance.
• [Political Poster Issued by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]
  Political poster issued by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's American Organization. Its image of bound hands and a black star accompanies a message that bodies may be killed but ideas endure.
• [Portrait Poster of an Unidentified Man]
  Black-and-white portrait poster of an unidentified man. No identifying text, creator, date or place is present.
• [Statement on the incident during Newroz celebrations in Damascus]
  Press release in Arabic about Syrian Kurds by Jamʻīyat al-Ṭalabat Kurdistān khārij al-waṭan (Vienna) Arabic
• 11 September, thanks and congratulations.
  Single page press release in Kurmanji Kurdish and Arabic, issued in February 1970 by the Komeley Xwendekarani Kurd li Ewrûpa on the activities of the UK Branch of the the Kurdish Students Society in Europe. Supas ù Pírozbayî Laqî Inglistan lem duwayîyeda be rûdawêkî xoş hate peş, be derçunî govarî 11 Eylûl. Em nawe ke nazdarî dilî hemû Kurdeke... Rojî dagîrsanî şorisî Kurdistanî Xuwarû Be gûman (11 Eylûl) betalîyekî gewre le çarçêwey xebatî komele nebezekeman pirr ekat, her bemeş Komelekeman hengawêki gewrey hawîşt bo pêşewe.
• A handwritten article by the Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement in Iraq
  The Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement penned a four-page handwritten article in 1976. In this article, the authors criticise both the Iraqi and Iranian governments for their efforts to suppress the Kurdish population with the assistance of local Kurdish parties. Committee members include the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Association of Kurdistan Students Abroad (AKSA), and the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union (CIS).
• A letter to Omar Sheikhmous from Latif Rashid on behalf of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe
  A letter to Omar Sheikhmous from Latif Rashid, in Arabic, on behalf of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe (KSSE)
• A Message from Izz al-Din Husayni (Ezaddin Husseini)
  Mamosta Ezaddin Husseini raises three demands: 1- Stop repression in Iran and specifically in Kurdistan 2- Organizing a referendum 3- An international investigation on human rights in Kurdistan
• A new slogan, an old policy
  On April 22, 1985, a number of Komala members and sympathisers in the UK released a two-page printed statement criticising Jalal Talabani's shift in the party's slogan from the call for autonomy to the right to self-determination.
• A news report from Mahabad in Bāmdād newspaper (25/11/1979)
  A report on the protest in Mahabad and a nine-point resolution was published in the Bāmdād newspaper.
• A photo of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in Mahabad
  KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou delivering a speech in Mahabad, 20 November 1979
• A photograph with annotation: "a camp of seasonal worker Kurds, close to Izmir, Turkey, 1998".
  A photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "a camp of seasonal worker Kurds, close to Izmir, Turkey, 1998". Boy walking away from the camera with makeshift washing line in foreground and shelters in the background.
• A photograph with annotation: "the morning in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the morning in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997". Three men sitting at a table with two others standing behind. All looking into camera.
• A poster by Komala
  A small poster had issued by Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, dated 1368 (in the Shamsi calendar, therefore 1989), to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the founding of the communist party of Iran.
• A report on military operations by the Iraqi state in Qala Deza
• A Response to Rajavi’s Mojahedin
  A Persian-language political pamphlet responding to propaganda and criticism directed by Massoud Rajavi’s Mojahedin against the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and its secretary-general, Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. It challenges the tone and substance of these attacks and discusses political criticism, democratic conduct and relations among Iranian opposition organisations. The pamphlet was reproduced in Paris in June 1988 by the party’s publications and propaganda section abroad.
• A statement from the office of Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini
  This statement expresses the willingness of political forces in Kurdistan for a political solution to stop the imposed war of state against Kurds and welcome the negotiation board to Kurdistan. However, they still emphasise the autonomy of Kurdistan within a democratic Iran and ask people to be united.
• A Woman on the Path to Liberation, Vol. 1
  56-page booklet published by the Sâzmân-e Mojâhedin-e Khalgh-e Irân, or People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and compiled from articles on women's social status in Iran, first published in the PMOI newspaper 'Mujāhid.'
• Abdul Rahman Faraj: Another Martyr on the Way of Kurdistan's Liberation
  Memorial poster for Abdul Rahman Faraj, issued by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Europe Organisation in July 1986. The poster presents a portrait and biographical text and identifies him as a martyr of Kurdistan's liberation.
• An announcement signed by the Kurdish People's Representative Board about the draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions
  Copy of an article from the Persian newspaper 'Kayhān'. In this article, Kurdish representatives raise their objection to the draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions published by the government's special delegation for Kurdistan.
• An article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on a book by Aziz Shemzini
  A five-page article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on Aziz Shemzini’s book 'Jolaneweyi Rizgari Nishtimani Kurdistan' [The Patriotic Freedom Movements from Kurdistan]. Aziz Shemzini was a prominent member of the KDP in the 1940s - the grandson of Abdel Kader Shemzini, he received a doctorate in Leningrad in 1958. His book was published in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian.
• Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, 1969.
  46-page issue of the Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, (1969) edited by Dara Attar and containing articles by Lord Kilbracken, Taufiq Wahby and C.J. Edmonds.