| Description | Folder of general materials on the history of the Kurds in Iraq, including a four page typescript in English with various statements and reports from 1961-62, Issues no.5 and 7 of 'Iraqi News' (1963), an appeal signed by the Iraqi poet Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri and four other authors (Kurdish and Arab) on 12 April 1964, a pamphlet on the Kurdish question in Iraq (1965), a proclamation by Yekêtî Qutabayanî Kurdistan, Iraq (1965), a a typed sheet of extracts from various British newspapers and Le Monde on the Kurdish conflict (January to May 1965), a nine-page statement in Arabic on conditions in Iraqi Kurdistan (1966?), a 14-page undated (ca.1967) typescript on the history of the Kurds and the KDP, a 1969 Report (in Arabic) on conditions and developments in Iraqi Kurdistan with the damage inflicted on Kurdish villages by bombs, reprints of articles from the Iraqi Newspaper 'Al-Ta'akhi' on Kurdish villages and towns (28-29 July 1970) with an undated (1976?) typed report [by Sheikhmous?] on the Arabisation of Iraqi Kurdistan and deportations of Kurds, a series of twelve other reprints of articles from 'Al-Ta'akhi' (August to December 1970), an Appeal by the Kurdish delegates to members of the World Peace Movement (17 April 1974), 'A statistical report on the results of the war of Iraqi Kurdistan 19 April - 1 May 1974: Issue no. 2', a statement of Kurdish casualties up to 30 August 1974, Casualties and losses of the war in Kurdistan from 11 March to 15 October 1974, a letter accompanying photographs [not present] of two Kurdish victims of phosphor bombs (October 1974), a list of Members of the Iraqi armed forces who have joined the [Kurdish] revolution (July 1974?), an Appeal by various Kurdish organisations to Iraqi, Arab and world organizations and trade unions (May 1974), a Statement by 'Supporters of the Revolutionary Movement of Iraq' (1974), a Statistical report on the results of the war in Iraqi Kurdistan March-November 1974 (December 1974), two issues of 'Al-Jabha', the newspaper of the Iraqi national gathering (1974-75), three leaflets (two in Arabic, one in English) published by the Committee on Defending Iraqi People (1974), an anonymous handwritten article on Iraqi Kurdistan (1976), handwritten minutes of a meeting of the Iraqi national gathering in Damascus (April 1978), an undated handwritten article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement based on Seyed Aziz Shemzini's book, the text of a confidential Iraqi telegram to all its forces in Kurdistan (10 August 1983), a falsified leaflet from the Iraqi embassy in East Berlin (1977), a statement from the Iraqi Embassy in Bonn regarding an amnesty for Kurds (1982), two issues (No.1 and No.5) of Ba'ath Party newsletter Nida al-jamahir (1989-1990) and a US guide to Iraqi military insignia, a file of papers on events in Iraq in the 1990s following the Gulf War, including documents issued by the Opposition Forces, a 63-page booklet in Arabic, 'Mu'ashshirat khittat `amal li-`am 1993' by Wizarat al-Zira`ah wa-al-Rayy, Iqlim Kurdistan al-`Iraq (1993), a report by Laura Davidson on 'Changing Kurdistan: the state of women' (1993), maps of Iraq and the Southern Kurdistan oil fields, an undated report in Arabic on the Bekhme Dam on the Great Zab river near Irbil, and an anonymous 4-page typescript on Hamdi Beg, Shaikh Mahmoud, Gertrude Bell and political events in Iraqi Kurdistan in the early 1920s.
A separate box contains presscuttings, both original and photocopied, from 1965 to 2006, including a bundle of over 30 photocoped articles on political affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan published in the Arabic newspaper al-Jumhariyah (February and March 1965) with some English-language coverage in The Times and related articles from al-Manar and other Arabic papers, reprints from the Iraqi Newspaper al-Ta'akhi on Kurdish villages and other topics (1970), a copy of a 1985 article from 'Der Funke' on destroyed villages, a thick file of cuttings from Time magazine on the Gulf War (1991-92), a compilation of US newspaper cuttings on Kurdish affairs (1992), a 1996 article by Kanan Makaya from The New York Review and a press release on the same author's 'Cruelty and Silence' (1993), and a selection of cuttings from the early 2000s. |