Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• Documents of Indictment (1994): A collection of documents condemning the mercenary and terrorist wing of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement and ordering it to attack the federal government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  A compilation of documents published by the PUK to highlight terrorist activities undertaken by the Kurdistan Islamic Movement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
• Draft of rights and obligations of the autonomous regions (in Persian)
  In this article, Hashem Sabbaghian, a member of the government's special delegation for Kurdistan, shared the draft of rights and obligations of the autonomous regions with Kayhān newspaper and asked people and political parties to share their comments about the draft with the secretariat of the government's special delegation for Kurdistan within a maximum two weeks.
• Draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions
  The foreign office of Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini's supporters translated the "draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions" by the government's special delegation for Kurdistan for Kurds living abroad.
• English text of Fuad Hussein's speech to a Kurdish conference in Amsterdam in October 1983
  English text of a speech by KDP member Fuad Mohammed Hussein - then living in Europe - to a Kurdish congress held in Amsterdam in October 1983 under the sponsorship of the Research Institute of Oppressed People.
• Exhibition poster: Everyday Culture of the Kurds
  Coloured poster advertising an exhibition entitled "Alltagskultur der Kurden"(Everyday culture of the Kurds), held in the Übersee-Museum in Bremen, 27 May to 27 August 1988.
• Facsimile letter from the martyr Khalil Saoud to Jalal Talabani, 1978
  Large two-page document issued by the Iraqi Communist Party on the killing of Khalil Saoud, including a facsimile handwritten letter from Saoud to Jalal Talabani
• Handout by Jamʻīyat al-Ṭalabah al-Akrād fī Urubbā, UK Branch, Arabic Roneo
  Roneographed copy of an Arabic handout issued by the UK Branch of Jamʻīyat al-Ṭalabah al-Akrād fī Urubbā, February 1966
• Handout published by the Kurdish Students Society in Europe (KSSE)
  Arabic handout, published in February 1966 by the Kurdish Students Society in Europe (KSSE), reporting on their recent meeting in Czechoslovakia, with statements on the situation in Kurdistan and demands for autonomy.
• Handwritten open letter from the KDP (6 pages)
  Handwritten open letter from the KDP (6 pages)
• Histoire de la photographie au Kurdistan
  History of photography in Kurdistan
• Holy Islam
  Issue No.3 of 'Holy Islam', a Kurdish-language bulletin published by the Kurdish Islamic movement, featuring articles on religious and political topics, Ba'athism, the peshmerga, poetry, along with photographs of Sheikh Mohammed Hatami, Navvab Safavi and Saddam Hussein.
• In Order to Preserve Peace and Strengthen National Unity
  A collection of memoranda exchanged between the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the Kurdistan Democratic Party regarding the resolution of the Kurdish issue.
• Internal formations of the Kurdish Islamic Army
  30-page photocopied booklet on the 'Internal formations of the Kurdish Islamic Army', providing details of the military and civil structures, the roles of the Shura council, and other matters. Dated 18/4/1982 with the Islamic date of 23 Jumada al-Thani written alongside.
• Interview between Sheikh Ezzadin Hosseini and the Association of Kurdistan student abroad (AKSA)
  14-page booklet in Persian containing the text of an interview between Sheikh Ezzadin Hosseini and the Association of Kurdistan student abroad (AKSA) in 1982
• Iraqi Kurdistan Front - The Front's Charter and Internal Regulations
• Iraqi Review, Vol.1, No.26, Wednesday 9 March, 1960.
  Iraqi Review, Vol.1, No.26, Wednesday 9 March, 1960. A weekly supplement to "Ittihad Al-Shaab", Baghdad, Iraq.
• Issue no. 12 of Rādiyū-i ṣidā-yi Inqilā̄b-i Īrān: Akhbār-i Kurdistān (Iranian Revolution Voice Radio- Kurdistan news)
  A series of short news stories about the front lines of the war in Kurdistan in 1982 was published by KOMALA.
• Issue no. 2 of Rādiyū-i ṣidā-yi Inqilā̄b-i Īrān: Akhbār-i Kurdistān (Iranian Revolution Voice Radio- Kurdistan news)
  A series of short news stories about Kurdistan between July 24 and July 30, 1982, was published by KOMALA.
• Issue no. 22 of Rādiyū-i ṣidā-yi Inqilā̄b-i Īrān: Akhbār-i Kurdistān (Iranian Revolution Voice Radio- Kurdistan news)
  A series of short news stories about the front lines of the war in Kurdistan between December 1982 and January 1983 published by KOMALA.
• Ittiḥād al-shaʻb [Hevgirtina gel] 1976-1979
  21 issues of Ittiḥād al-shaʻb [Hevgirtina gel,, or 'People's Union'], a newspaper published by the Partya Dêmokratî Kurd a Cep li Sûriya (founded 1975), dating between July 1976 and August 1979.
• Ittiḥād-i Chap' No. 17 (16 October 1979)
  Issue No. 17 (16 October 1979) of the Iranian Communist publication 'Ittiḥād-i Chap' [Persian: اتحاد چپ]
• Jawan: The Forgotten Kurdish Tribe and Famous Jawans
  Booklet in Arabic on the Kurdish Jawan tribe by Iraqi historian, linguist and poet Mustafa Jawad (1904-69), first published in 1967.
• Joint Reconciliation Program of Kurdish People's Representatives
  Translation from Persian of an article in the newspaper Kār issued by Sāzmān-i Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāʼī-i Khalq-i Īrān. It consists of the Kurdish People's Representatives' joint reconciliation programme, in which they presented their demands to the central government and called for a demonstration on November 27, 1979, in support of the Kurdish People's Representatives' proposal.
• Journal of Komala No. 9
  Special issue by Komala of the Toilers of Iraq, addressing theoretical aspects of party which is based on Marxism–Leninism framework.
• KAJYKNAME: Glimpses of KAJYK Ideology (1971)
  Collection of Arabic documents relating to the Komeley Azadî we Jiyanewe we Yekîty Kurd (KAJYK) founded in 1959, distributed by the Kajyk party in 1971.