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The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead. The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that they yielded enough…
As Turkish troops and their jihadist proxies in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declare the fall of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, serious questions are being raised across the world about the legality of this most blatant violation of international law. And while the profound humanitarian suffering caused by these war crimes…
On Monday South (or Iraqi) Kurdistan held its referendum for independence. In polling that outside observers deemed free and fair, some 70% of eligible voters in Kurdistan and territories just south of the recognized autonomous region of Kurdistan turned out. Sparking fury in Turkey, Iran and Baghdad, over 92% of these voters chose ‘yes’ for…
What Israel’s PM could have said By David Romano Rudaw 14 September This week a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gathered much attention from Kurdish and other Middle Eastern media. Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel “supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of their own.” This is…
The spice saffron, as well as being famously expensive, is packed with antioxidants. It is said to help combat depression and lower blood pressure, to soften your skin and hair and is essential in a broad range of dishes from Swedish buns to paella. So what’s stopping it becoming as fashionable as turmeric and cinnamon?…
Vahid Nick Pay – When the Islamic Republic of Iran launched its fully-articulated political agenda in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, it merged the concept of political Islam with the previously secular readings of the republican doctrine of state. This book provides an analysis of the constitutional and institutional structure of public power in…
Dr. Vahid Nick Pay is an academic with a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Durham, UK. He has taught and carried out research activities at prestigious universities such as the University of London, UK, Sciences Po France, Università Degli Studi di Milano , Italy and Islamic Azad University, Iran. He has…
The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead. The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that they yielded enough…
As Turkish troops and their jihadist proxies in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declare the fall of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, serious questions are being raised across the world about the legality of this most blatant violation of international law. And while the profound humanitarian suffering caused by these war crimes…
On Monday South (or Iraqi) Kurdistan held its referendum for independence. In polling that outside observers deemed free and fair, some 70% of eligible voters in Kurdistan and territories just south of the recognized autonomous region of Kurdistan turned out. Sparking fury in Turkey, Iran and Baghdad, over 92% of these voters chose ‘yes’ for…
What Israel’s PM could have said By David Romano Rudaw 14 September This week a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gathered much attention from Kurdish and other Middle Eastern media. Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel “supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of their own.” This is…
The spice saffron, as well as being famously expensive, is packed with antioxidants. It is said to help combat depression and lower blood pressure, to soften your skin and hair and is essential in a broad range of dishes from Swedish buns to paella. So what’s stopping it becoming as fashionable as turmeric and cinnamon?…
Vahid Nick Pay – When the Islamic Republic of Iran launched its fully-articulated political agenda in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, it merged the concept of political Islam with the previously secular readings of the republican doctrine of state. This book provides an analysis of the constitutional and institutional structure of public power in…
Dr. Vahid Nick Pay is an academic with a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Durham, UK. He has taught and carried out research activities at prestigious universities such as the University of London, UK, Sciences Po France, Università Degli Studi di Milano , Italy and Islamic Azad University, Iran. He has…