Iran: Kurdistan
(see also Iraq: Kurdistan & Turkey: Kurdistan)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO).
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza. The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical, and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community (Berlin: K. Schwarz, 1990).
Olson, Robert. . The Kurdish Question & Turkish-Iranian Relations, from World War I to 1998 (Costa Mesa CA: Mazda, 1998).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Blackboards" [2002], dir. Samira Makhmalbaf, ?m. Itinerant teachers in Iranian Kurdistan.
"Marooned in Iraq" [2003], dir. Bahman Ghobadi ?m.
"A Time for Drunken Horses" [2000], dir. Bahman Ghobadi (2000). Iranian Kurds, who live by smuggling domestic goods through forbidding terrain laced with landmines, join forces to get their handicapped brother to a place where he can undergo life-saving surgery.