KurdistanThe heart of “Mesopotamia”

ESL 156 Culture StudiesPresenter : AkamInstructor: Prof. Lyra Riabov

Spring 2012

WELCOME

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Outline

1. Great Kurdistan 2. Kurdistan Flag 3. Iraqi Kurdistan( Kurdistan Region)4. Kurdistan Regional government5. Major cities in Kurdistan6. Culture

Map Of Great Kurdistan

Great Kurdistan

* Once was a unified Land. * Second was Divided over two Empires, Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire.*Third the Division happened after WWI into five parts:1.Turkey2. Iran3. Iraq4. Syria5. Armenia

The Flag of Kurdistan

*Red at the top*White in the middle*Green at the bottom* There is a Sun on the middle

Iraqi Kurdistan

*Location: north Iraq *Population: More than 6,000,000 *Ethnics: Kurdish, Turkmens, Arabs, Assyrians and a few other minorities.

*Religion: Islam, Christian, Yazidies

*Weather: four season (Spring, summer, autumn, winter)

*Kurdistan Region is now a part from Iraq *The Kurdistan Regional Government”(KRG) exercises executive power according to the Kurdistan Parliament assembly.

* Iraq’s Constitution recognizes the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Kurdistan National Assembly and the ‘Peshmerga’ guard as a legitimate army.

Kurdistan Region

Major cities and my home town

Duhok

Slemani

Erbil, the capital city

kirkuk

Rania, my home town

Culture

Dance “(Kurdish: Haliperkê) *A group of hand-holding mixed gender dancers

*A round dancing with a single or couple of figure dancers often added to the geometrical centre.

*Kurdish Haliperke takes place in most of festivals, birthdays, New years, Newroz, Marriage and other ceremonies.

FoodKurdish Foods are really delicious but difficult to prepare!

Kofta

Yaprakh(Dolma)

Geepa(sarwpe)

References:

1.http://www.flickriver.com 2 .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan

3.http://www.theotheriraq.com/images/FactSheet.pdf

4.http://www.google.com/imgres?q=kurdistan

5.http://whitneysamusebouche.blogspot.com/2010/09/heck-yes-to-kurdistan.html

6. www.facebook.com/pages/Kurdish-Food

Thank you

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