Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

Tawfiq, Rahbar Jalal Mamesh, Ako Mohamed, Khalil
Rashou, Zoheir Abdel Malek, Salah Jamour, Aziz Akrawi,
Ali Jafar, Hoshang Sabri, Sirwan Kawosi, Hawre
Bakhawan, Marwan Ali, Nizar Mohammed, Ali Sido
Gorani, Mahabad Kurdi, Muhammad Barzinji, Sheikh
Omar Gharib, Samal Shali, Mihrdad Azadi, Georges Fat
Hullah, Sabir Kokayi, the author and many others that it
will take many pages to mention.
The purpose in this research is the evaluation of Kurdish
literature and the definition of its national role as well as
the analysis of its current state and what it should do in
order for it to play a decisive role in the Kurdish Liberation
movement. Some people think that literature is not
important in a general way and it is only for the few with
a special taste for it. The truth is that this opinion is an
erroneous one, and it has been cultivated by the colonisers
to confine literature to a small circle of intellectuals and
prevent it from expressing the emotions and complaints
of the population at large. The fact remains that literature,
any literature, has a strong influence in the existence of
societies and the political development of civilisations.
Literature can thus be considered a measure of the degree
of civilisation attained by any society.
In that respect, poetry, prose, folklore and other forms
of literature do not come to exist by mere coincidences
and they do not represent magic accessible to some and
not to others. Literature is a direct result of the development
of civilisations and a reflection of their reality. In addition,
it is the foundations of their existence and of the political
currents that come out of this existence.
Different currents throughout the centuries have
influenced the literatures of different nations. The
literature of national liberation movements has passed
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