Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has stood at the centre of colonial studies. As a literary […]
Category: Opinion
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition sat on the classroom shelf. Its cover fascinated me: Don […]
The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )
The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish books in an iron box and buried it in the […]
A Mullah, Witness of Two Eras
In the 19th century, when the Kurdish principalities were dismantled, the Kurds lost their rule in the cities. This loss of authority in the cities […]
Our Lost Riches (Dewlemendiyên me yên Wenda)
In Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire exposes the hypocrisy of the colonisers. He reminds us that it was not Cortés gazing from the top of the […]