Kurdish cultural heritage is rooted in one of the world’s oldest cultures – Mesopotamia. Throughout history, Kurdish cultural heritage has been subject to great hardships, such as warfare and internal disputes, oppression, alienation and denial, but it has also been victim of a very efficient policy of assimilation. Much of the original Kurdish cultural heritage has today been lost, disappeared or destroyed in various ways.

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CONTENT OF THE BOOK:

A Diveded Nation, but a Nation in the Making - A Challenge to the 21st Century.
Prof. Emeritus Ismet Cherif Vanly

The Impact and the Quest for a Cultural Heritage
Prof. Martin Peterson

Culture is a Human Right: The Legacy of Hasankeyf and Ilisu
Kerim Yildiz

World Heritage
Bobo Charlotte Krabbe

What 'home' means to people who have left it
Prof. Tor Halfdan Aase

Cultural identity and oppression experienced through the Kurdish liberation struggle.
Kariane Westrheim

Cultural Heritage: Objects of the past as symbols of identity in the present
Prof. Randi Håland

Towards a Kurdish Legal Dictionary
Dr. Nouri Talabany

The use of Daf in the Darvish practises of Sanandj
Hussein Zahawy

The Poetry of Kurdistan
Berivan Dostky