#kurdish women

[nansheonearth]

The Kurdish Female Guerrillas Fighting ISIS (Warzone Documentary)

#radfem #marriage #gender #patriarchy #the kurdish female guerrillas fighting isis #kurdish women #kurdish #kurdistan #middle east #mena #asia #o

[writingwithcolor]

Middle Eastern /Arab Muslim mercenaries

Anonymous asked:

Hi there. I wanted to write a Middle Eastern action story set in near future Kurdistan. These are 5 of the most important points: 1) It’s about a syndicate called “The Kurdish Order”. 2) My two heroines are a Kurdish woman and her Arab partner. 3) The reason for them living their lives as professional assassins was because their parents were survivors of a civil war in their country. 4) The supporting characters are the Kurdish woman’s parents who contacts her from the headquarters via a radio, and informs her about the targets’ whereabouts. 5) The main villain is an Arab woman whose evil plan is to distribute a lot of firearms to the mercenaries around the world. When the two heroines confronts her and asks, “What did your parents taught you when you were young?”, the villain’s response is; “You’re correct, my nemeses. This is not a ‘My mom and dad hated me for no reason when I was young’ type of excuse. It’s more of a ‘My mom and dad taught me that the world is about the survival of the fittest’ type of motive.”. The issue here is that I want my story to take place in the Middle East, but I don’t want to perpetuate the “Muslims = Mercenaries” stereotypes. Would my story still work the same if my characters are coded as Christians or Atheists?

I don’t know enough about this topic to speak on it authoritatively but I do want to point out that Kurdistan isn’t currently a country. It isn’t clear from your ask whether you want to set your story in a near-future setting in which Kurds have gained independence and founded their own country, or whether you are referring to the geographic region that spans present-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran in which Kurdish peoples are mostly concentrated. 

Either way, it’s worth noting that Kurds are currently a marginalized ethnic minority in all of the countries in which they reside. Kurdish nationalism dates back over a thousand years and has a complex history including many instances of violent repression. If you are not Kurdish yourself, I would recommend doing a lot of research into Kurdish history and current political issues before attempting to write this story. 

-Niki

The Middle East is diverse in ethnicities and beliefs. Even though Islam is the religion that many people from the region follow, is not the only one. My suggestion in this case, to avoid the “Muslims = Mercenaries”, is to give your readers a clear image of how much of a mosaic the Middle East is. And this can only happen when the worldbuilding is correctly done and the focus is not only on the Muslims but on the rest of the people as well and their customs. As for the rest of your question, I agree with Niki that before you proceed with this project you must inform yourselves deeply about Kurdish history and especially the current political climate 

-Asmaa

We would like to turn this over to our Kurdish and Arab readers. How do you feel about the asker’s story premise? What advice do you have for them and which stereotypes would you like them to avoid?

#Kurdish #Middle eastern #Kurdish women #Arab #Arabian #Middle Eastern Women #Islam #Muslim stereotypes #Muslim characters #asks #Arab women #villains

[thegayestcat]

Persepolis English Dub w/ Subtitulos en español

In light of the murders, attacks, tortures, rapes and imprisonments of Iranian, Kurdish, Persian, and other ethnicities living in Iran and the protests against the lack of women's rights and freedom and against the current Iranian Republic regime that has been in place since 1979 after the Iranian Islamic Revolution.

If you are interested in learning more about the Iranian Islamic Revolution from someone who had lived through it - I highly recommend Persepolis.

The movie and books, written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi, is a memoir to her childhood, growing up during the peak of the revolution. Born in 1969, Marjane grew up and experienced a loss of freedom, innocence, religious and political freedoms.

Since it is hard to find the movie, which is hand drawn frame by frame, I will link a Google Drive folder with the movie as two versions (MP4 and OGV) watchable file types.

This is an English dub, compared to the original French audio (where Marjane moved as an adult) - but has subtitles in Español.

Download and watch Persepolis here

(please DM me if there is any issue with the files or if I made any inaccuracies in my post - I did my best to point out that people of Kurdish backgrounds are STILL experiencing genocide)

#Persepolis #Marjane Satrapi #Zhina Amini #women movement of iran #Rage Against the Regime #free movie #english dub #subtitulos en español #iranian #iran #masha amini #kurdish #kurdish women

[annoyingeightleggedbanana]

Another one! The clothing is actually a little more accurate for this one cause I looked at a few reference pics of celebratory kurdish wear! I like her very much! Would the dancer literally die from that turtle neck and head dress? Yes. But this is just a design which I like!

#art #coloring #og coloring #dancer #la bayadere #maria khoreva #sarah lamb #svetlana zakharova #Russian ballet #classical ballet #Middle East #Kurdish women #Iran? #more poc in dancing please thanks #poc

[abwwia]

Leyla Zana (born 3 May 1961) is a #Kurdish politician in Turkey who was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. She was also awarded the Rafto Prize in 1994 after being recognized by the Rafto Foundation for being incarcerated for her peaceful struggle for the human rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and the neighbouring countries. via Wikipedia

repost from fb: Poli, the Polish Feminists

watch the video, screenprint source:

#LeylaZana #WomensMonth #WomensHistoryMonth #womenherstory #kurdishturkish #KurdishpeopleinTurkey #activist

#Leyla Zana #herstory #kurdish #kurdish women #feminism

[magnetothemagnificent]

This is your reminder that Mahsa Amini's Kurdish name was Jina. The violence she faced wasn't just due to her being a woman, it was also because she was Kurdish. Kurdish people face ethnic cleansing and violence across the SWANA region and Turkey. Kurdish people are not allowed to use their Kurdish names under these regimes.

She wasn't allowed to use her real name in life, please at least grant her the mercy of using her true name in death.

Her name was Jina.

#mahsa amini #jina amini #misogyny #racism #anti-kurdish racism #kurdish rights #current events #Iran #violent misogyny #state violence #violence against women

[bobemajses]

Old photographs of Jewish women II

1. Kurdistan; 2. Volhynia region, Ukraine; 3. Yemen; 4. Bukhara, Uzbekistan; 5. Algeria; 6. Crimea; 7. Cracow, Poland; 8. Thessaloniki, Greece; 9. Bulgaria

#jewish #kurdish #kurdistan #women #ukraine #volhynia #poland #cracow #uzbekistan #bukhara #crimea #karaim #crimean karaites #bulgaria #ashkenazi #sephardic #greece #balkan #yemen #yemenite jews #thessaloniki #algeria #africa #middle east

[writersarea]

Are you looking for a way to support the people protesting in Iran?

Zhina Amini (Reported as Mahsa Amini, her birth name) a Kurdish woman was killed earlier this month by the morality police in Iran for wearing a headscarf in what they deemed to be an improper manner. Protests have since broken out across the country and a number of other Iranians have been killed since.

The internet has been shut down in many places and deaths are incredible common. The last time the Iranian government shut down the internet like this, over a thousand people died.

So what can you do?

Share Iranian people’s words and news about what is going on.

Recognize that this is not about Islam but about a tyrannical government (so don’t use this as an excuse to be Islamophobic). These people need our support, not our commentary.

Help support Iranians gain access to proxies through apps like the Tor Project’s Project Snowflake. This will pair you, who is likely in a safer country (I say as someone in the US who assumes much of following is in North America or Europe), with an Iranian person trying to access the internet as long as you are online. This is a really simple step you can take to help Iranians connect to the outside world so they can use their voices and let loved ones know they are alive.

#iran #mahsa aminia #zhina amini #stand with iran #iranian people #iranian #kurd #kurdish #kurdish woman #women #woman #feminism #feminist

[radicalgraff]

"Who do we call when the police murders?

به کی زنگ بزنیم وقتی قاتل خودش پلیسه؟

Graffiti seen in Iran during the ongoing protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22yr old woman who fell into a coma after being beaten in police custody.

Ms Amini, an ethnic Kurd who was from the western city of Saqez in Kurdistan province, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.

She was detained outside a metro station in Tehran last Tuesday by morality police. They accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing.

According to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention centre.

Protests erupted in Saqez after her funeral on Saturday, with security forces reportedly opening fire on a crowd that marched towards the local governor's office.

There were also clashes between protesters and riot police in Sanandaj, Kurdistan's capital, on Saturday and Sunday.

Four people were reportedly killed in Iran's Kurdish region on Monday when security forces opened fire during protests over the death, a Kurdish rights group said.

Her death has been condemned nationwide, with the Persian hashtag reaching nearly 2 million Twitter mentions.

The most intense demonstrations have been in Iranian Kurdistan, where authorities have previously put down unrest among minority Kurds.

#mahsa amini #MahsaAmini #protest #kurds #kurdish rights #iran protest #womens rights

[luminalunii97]

Racism of the Islamic Republic regime

Something that has been neglected in topics of protests in Iran is racism. It is often left out of discussions by those of us in or outside of Iran who weren't the direct victims of these antihuman crimes. There's a huge difference between human rights violations in central Persian cities and border non-Persian ones. Persians and other ethnic groups who live in central areas are the targets of enough antihuman acts by this regime that shows the terrorist face of them, just imagine how everything is ×100 worse in non-central areas. Here are some examples:

Arabs in the south: it is estimated that more than 2 million Arabs live in iran. This ethnic minority is severely oppressed and violated. The regime has been capturing and executing Arabs and Arab activists with no clear reason other than being criminal dictators themselves, like how they've been violating and killing Kurds and Balochs in the past 4 decades. Many Arab families have been forcefully moved and pushed to corners, literally in a geographic sense. Racism exist in the Iranian populations like any other country and nation in the world. But it is promoted and supported by the regime. Jina revolution has brought this issue to attention and social activists are doing anti racist activism now, something that wasn't addressed enough before.

Kurds in the west: people of Kurd never accepted the authority of this regime and fought their forces with all their might. Many Kurds citizens and Kurd activists have been the victims of government murder or long imprisonments simply for being freedom fighters. Also, kurds are denied many legal and social rights in Iran, for example not getting hired by governmental organizations, unless they sell their souls to the regime. Because of this many highly educated Kurds can't find a job and they're forced into doing unrelated or illegal labor that often gets them killed. To understand the severity of this issue I recommend you read this article "koolbars new slaves" thoroughly.

Balochs in the east: people of Baloch are victims of the IR regime's racism towards our neighbors, Afghans and Pakistanis. The regime refuses to provide ID papers for Balochs with the excuse that they might be Afghan and not Iranian. The Balochistan province is kept extremely underdeveloped by the regime to the point that many people don't have drinking water there. Kurd and Arab cities are also kept underdeveloped even though most of those areas are rich with natural resources that could easily be used for development. Since many Baloch people are denied id papers they have no legal rights and the regime often gets away with whatever human rights violations, like executions, r*pe, and torture, they do there. Other than the issue of legal rights, the islamic republic had been very successful in isolating Balochistan and keeping the rest of the world including the rest of Iran of knowing who Balochs are and what is really going on in that region. Jina revolution has also brought the issues in Balochistan to attention.

Aside from these intentional neglects, the language and culture of these ethnicities are under attack by the regime.

Other ethnic groups in Iran face discrimination to different degrees by IR. One thing that plays a great role in the level of racism by the regime is religion. Sunni Muslims are very hated and suppressed by the Islamic Republic here. Therefore kurd cities with a majority of Sunni Muslim population face a worse fate than the majority of shia cities. The regime also spreads a lot of hate towards sunni Muslims by accusing them of fanaticism and animosity which used to work on the old shia religious population. Kurds, Balochs, Arab and Turkmens in Iran have the majority sunni Muslim population. They are also the most repressed. Apart from sunni Muslims, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Baha'i and christian believers face discrimination in different ways by the regime.

The only way a war against big criminal bullies like the Islamic Republic can be won is by coming together and unite as people regardless of race, religion, sexuality and gender. Something that seemed not possible 2 years ago but Jîna revolution showed us that it is very much a possibility. We still have a lot of work to do but people took the first step in unity and solidarity. I recommend you read the article below twice to see the dept of what's going on in Iran and why the Islamic Republic overthrow and this revolution is vital to many marginalized people:

#iran #iran protests #iran revolution #human rights #politics #feminism #middle east #mahsa amini #jina amini #women life freedom #jin jiyan azadi #kurds #kurdish #baluchi #arabic #racism #police brutality #irgcterrorists #intersectional feminism #background information

[shirzan140102]

REPORT: Approximately 400 Kurdish Youth Missing

Per IranWire, a human rights group has reported that approximately 400 Kurdish teenagers (including minors) have been "abducted" during the past few months. In a previous post, I've explained that as a minority Kurds are in even greater danger as it is, so this is especially concerning. Please bring attention to this situation and be these kids' voices.

SOURCE

#free iran #freedom for iran #woman life freedom #women life freedom #iran protests #iran protests 2022 #iran protests 2023 #human rights #kurdish iranians #kurdistan #kurdistán

[nansheonearth]

The Kurdish Female Guerrillas Fighting ISIS (Warzone Documentary)

#the kurdish female guerrillas fighting isis #radfem #gender #patriarchy #capitalism #women's rights #feminism #kurdish women #mena #middle east #kurdistan #asia #o

[bellamonde]

For those who don’t know Voria Ghafouri, he is one of the most beloved and best football players of Iran. He has been an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic. He is Kurdish-Iranian, plays for an Iranian team and lives in Iran with his family. His sister was also heavily involved in fighting the ban on Iranian women attending sports stadiums.  

We Iranians have a deep connection with football. It is the most popular sport in Iran and since the beginning, it has been closely connected to Iranian politics. We do expect our football players to stand with the people because they are from the people and of the people. That’s why we have been massively disappointed in Iran’s national team.

Although he lives in Iran with his family, Voria has never shied away from speaking out and standing with the people. Voria could face the death penalty for his activism. This is not the first time Voria has been arrested but it may be the last. 

All Iranians, like Voria, who speak out and criticize the Islamic Republic are risking their lives. They are brave, courageous heroes of Iran. 

Please keep on spreading the news about Iran. We have to be their voice and do everything we can to support them and to make sure that people like Voria are not executed.

#iran #help iran #freedom for iran #iran protests #protect the protestors #human rights #world cup #soccer #football #voria ghafouri #opiran #ژن، ژیان، ئازادی #woman life freedom #kurdistan #kurdish genocide #women's rights

[divinum-pacis]

A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration in Bisaran, Kurdistan Province, Iran. Wikimedia Commons.

#religion #culture #kurds #kurdish #women #children #nowruz #kurdistan #iran #divinum-pacis

[heretic-child]

for the past 2 years, and specially last women's day i heard this slogan from people who rather don't know the real meaning of it or deliberately ignored and try to detach it from the women who create the movement.

jin jiyan azadi not only created by kurdish women to free themselves from kurdish men, but also it was an uprising against their occupiers, turkish, arab and persian men as well as women; as we, as a twice minority group, face discrimination from not only men but from women of the states we live under.

obviously, when kurdish women created this movement they wanted every women to participate and rise against their male counterparts but now seeing persian, arab and turkish women using this in marches (usually translating it into their own language), only embracing its feminist ideas while ignoring its roots is very evil and another example of occupation we face for the past 100 years.

i hope as women we can gather under the same roof against misogyny we are subjected everyday, without having to give up on our differences and identities to gain the support of other women.

#jin jiyan azadi #kurdish #women's day #txt

[abwwia]

Zehra Doğan @zehra____dogan (born 14 April 1989) is a Kurdish artist and journalist and author from Diyarbakır, Turkey.

In 2017, she was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in prison for "terr0rist propaganda" because of her news coverage, social media posts, and sharing a painting of hers on social media. Her painting depicts the destruction of the Nusaybin, town in southeastern Turkey, after the clashes between state security forces and Kurdish insurgents. After she finished her sentence, she was released from imprisonment from Tarsus Prison on 24 February 2019. Via Wikipedia

Read #herstory here: zehradogan.net/bio/

#Kurdish #kirdishartist #womenjournalist #femaleauthor #artherstory #artbywomen #womensart #palianshow #art #womenartists #femaleartist #artist #womeninTurkey #kurdishwomen #womenrights #botd #bornonthisday

#Zehra Doğan #art by women #art #kurdish #kurdish artist