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Culture & Art
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Our Kurdish poets
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Our Kurdish poets
By Colm Patrick MacManus (1944-2011)
Responding to the ideological needs of the Kurdish national liberation movement, which gained momentum in the late nineteenth century, Kurdish classical literature gradually gave way to a new, more flexible version of classical poetry known as "neo-classicism", which represented a transitional period from official classical poetry to modern poetry.
The theory and practice of modernisation was introduced through new literary trends in Turkish literature effected under the influence of European modernisation movements.
The vanguards of this new trend in Turkish literature were Taufiq
Hikmat, Namiq Kamal and others. Their work largely influenced Kurdish
intellectuals within the Ottoman administration before and during the
First World War. These intellectuals became very familiar with the modes
of Turkish national revival and took from it what befitted their own
nationalistic ideas and ideals: to revive their indigenous literary
forms and traditions to preserve, promote and purify their national
language, to introduce liberal ideas of progress and modern
civilisation, to establish various media which are necessary to perform
these tasks, such as opening schools for teaching the mother tongue,
setting up cultural societies and associations, establishing printing
presses, magazines and newspapers in the Kurdish language.
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Los Angeles; Special Screenings Of BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY's latest Films, Peshmerga &The Battle Of Mosul
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Special Screenings Of BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY's latest films,
Peshmerga And The Battle Of Mosul
On January 17 and 18, Landmark's Nuart Theatre welcomes renowned philosopher, writer,
activist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy to present his eye-opening documentaries from the front lines of conflict in Bosnia, Libya, and most recently Kurdistan and Iraq.
This retrospective includes the U.S. theatrical premiere engagements of his latest films Peshmerga and The Battle of Mosul, as well as special screenings of his earlier works Bosna! and The Oath of Tobruk.
Click on the showtime links to purchase tickets:
Friday, January 17:
7:00 pm Q&A following Peshmerga and The Battle of Mosul (double feature)
Moderated by Mitchell Landsberg (L.A. Times Senior Editor, former Foreign Editor)
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An Interview with Maryam Pirband a director and producer
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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ISA award-winning Maryam Pirband:
"When I saw the videos of ISIS in Kurdistan, I was shocked"
07/25/2018
Iranian ISA award-winning Maryam Pirband talks on "Fermysk/فرمێسک ", a short film about a young pregnant Kurdish girl who survived an ISIS attack.
Congratulations, Maryam! Tell us about your award and your experience in Independent Shorts Awards?
Maryam: Thank you very much. Actually, this is a great experience and affected my film journey. For me, the best gift is letting my film be seen by audiences and receiving feedbacks and when it is chosen by such a great, popular festival like ISA and awarded it happens better and my film can be seen better.
ISA: Which festivals "Fermysk" attended so far?
Maryam: I started the distribution recently and I submitted "Fermysk" in 5 festivals. Three of them selected it: Action On Film and Hollywood Dreamz Festivals and Independent Shorts Awards, in which it was awarded. Before that, I submitted "Fermysk"‘s script in some festivals and it was selected by International Las Vegas Screenwriting Competition and Baku International Film Festival.
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Cklara Moradian; Another Grief Poem #43
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VOKRadio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Another Grief Poem #43
It's Halabja, Newroz, March again
(which means Diaspora Blues are in high gear)
Cklara Moradian
Los Angeles, Mrch 4, 2018
To Mehmet, now dead.
To Airports, now closed.
To Homeland, now
destroyed.
To loss/ I can't recall where or how or whom.
To Kurdistan, of my imagination.
To Newroz, in diaspora.
To (lesser) loves, now gone...
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Annual Irvine Global Festival and Kurdish Community of Southern California
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Annual Irvine Global Festival and Kurdish Community of Southern California
Dear community members,
Kurdish Community of Southern California is happy to invite you to the
unforgettable Irvine Global Festival on Sept 23, 2017 from 10am to 6pm.
See the attached announcement and also below for details.
Kurdish Community of Southern California and Kurdish American Education Society once again join the Irvine Global Festival on September 23,2017 in partnership to raise awareness of the Kurdish cultural heritage and celebrate multiculturalism in Southern California.
Like every year the festival is filled with a kaleidoscope of cultural expressions and activities.
The day will feature hundreds of cultures, lively music and performances
by different bands and musicians.
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Kobani: Landscape of Resistance and Childhood Nostalgia
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kobani: Landscape of Resistance and Childhood Nostalgia
By Dr. Amir Sharifi
July1, 2017
The opening image of the film vividly shows endless rows of tents against a grey and menacing sky, engulfing refugees in a distance, with children inside a classroom in a new refugee camp. The young talented Kurdish filmmaker, Apo Bazidi, had gone to the refugee camp in Suruc as a volunteer in in 2014 in the thick of the battle for Kobane. Having just graduated from the prestigious film school of the University of Southern California, he wanted to help the refugees of the ISIS genocidal war against Kurds and to “record every day of his journey in the camps and on the front-lines to share their stories with the world”, which initially had turned away from facing the existential threat that Kurds faced.
Inspired by the invincible and selfless spirit of resistance spearheaded by women, and shocked by the savagery of ISIS, Bazidi was keen on documenting the sufferings and horrors that the refugees faced daily, some of which were reflected in the drawings of the camp children, showing violent scenes and fleeing families in the midst of atrocities.
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