RADIO INTIFADA

intifada=shaking off - oppression/silence

Voices from Kolkota to Casablanca

Voices of struggle, Voices for change

 
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 2-3 pm

KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 fm, Los Angeles

Streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days
 

EXPLORING KURDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

The Kurds don’t have a country of their own, but there is a community of some 16 to 35 million Kurdish speakers from the Middle East to the South Caucasus. Kurdish and non-Kurdish students and scholars from US, Canada and Europe are coming together to address a wide range of topics on Kurdish language and culture. 

This week’s program will focus on this first ever North American Conference on the Kurdish Language hosted by the Kurdish American Education Society and cosponsored by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (Friday, November 5th, 9am to 6pm, James West Alumni Center, UCLA).

 Guests are:

 Hasan Ghazi, Kurdish linguistic researcher, translator and journalist, who specializes in Kurdish literature. Fluent in 5 languages, he has translated more than 70 scholarly essays and articles on different aspect of Kurdish issues from English, Swedish, Persian and Azerbaijani Turkish into Kurdish. 

 Amir Sharifi, lecturer, Department of Linguistics, California State university, Long Beach, is an applied linguist and translator specializing in literacy socialization.

 Produced and hosted by Nyma Ardalan

SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective, KPFK