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Economic Analysis and Performance of PV Plants: An Application in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

open access: yesInternational Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 2019
In this study, photovoltaic (PV) technology development over the years is reviewed. The use of PV power plants to solve inadequate power supply in Kurdistan is also analysed. PV power application is one of the most developed renewable energy applications
Olusola Bamisile   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serologic prevalence of leptospiral infection in the horses in Kurdistan Province in Iran

open access: yesJournal of Zoonotic Diseases, 2020
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease with global distribution, the main source is rodents and wild animals that excrete leptospira in their urine. This study was conducted on 167 horses to determine the serologic prevalence of leptospiral infection in ...
Negisa Zaman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
wiley   +1 more source

Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

PROSPECTS OF CREATING AN INDEPENDENT KURDISH STATE SOUTH KURDISTAN

open access: yesВестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022
Thе article is devoted to the creating of an independent Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. The author gives a brief description of the current situation in Northern Iraq over the past decade and examines the relationship of world and regional actors to the ...
Maxim Vladimirovich Gladir
doaj  

SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2017
The article addresses the problem of self-determination of the Kurdish ethnos in Syria. Kurds are an indigenous people in this territory and for a long time lived within a single space within the Ottoman Empire. The artificial division of the Middle East
M. Dyurre
doaj   +1 more source

Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Economic Activities of Kurdistan’s Jews from the Late Naseri Period to the End of Reza Shah’s Reign” [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران
Kurdistan has historically functioned as a locus of coexistence and interaction among diverse ethno-religious communities. Although Jews constituted a demographic minority, they played a significant role in the region’s socio-economic transformations ...
Nahie Sanginabadi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

US Influence in Post‐Assad Syria and the Limits of Turkey's Leverage

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Abstract In early 2026, the post‐Assad government in Damascus weakened the Kurdish‐led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and began integrating the group through phased incorporation and gradual reassertion of state authority. While this advanced some Turkish objectives, it demonstrated the limits of Ankara's influence: Kurdish fighters were incorporated ...
Barış Çağlar
wiley   +1 more source

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