Kurds and Pre-Islamic Era

• John Limbert (1968): The Origins of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran. Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 41-51.n (pdf)

       Articles by Hamma Mirwaisi

• Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation .
• Iran and Iranian: Queen Vashti the Kurdish girl from Median Empire
• Baloch & Kurdish people in Iran are the foundations for the Airyanem (Iranian) nation Union 
• Kurdistan will be the second home for Jews after Israel - see article by Jerusalem Post regarding Hamma Mirwaisi

Kurdish Identity 

• -كرد یا كردها-احسان هوشمند- (pdf) [Kurd or Kurds - article by Kurdish researcher Ehsan Hooshmand]
• Kurdish Heritage Reclaimed - in Smithsonian Magazine (June 2010 edition)
• -،شرف خان ابن شمس الدین بدلیسی-شرفنامه-Sharafname by Prince Sharaf Khan Ibn Shams e Din Betlisi

Kurds and Dailamities

• The Dailamites of Northern Persia
• An overview of the Dailamites - by the Shahrbaraz Blog (in Persian)

Kurdish Tribes

       Articles by Pierre Oberling 

• The Kurdish Tribes
• The Hamavand Tribe 
• The Milan Tribe  

Linguistics

• Linguistic Similarities between Old Persian, Hawraman, Sorani Kurdish and Old Persian
• Paul, Ludwig, The Position of Zazaki among West Iranian Languages, University of Hamburg, pp. 163-177, 1988 (pdf).

Genetic Studies

• MtDNA and Y-chromosome Variation in Kurdish Groups. Research study by Ivan Nasidze, Dominique Quinque, Murat Ozturk, Nina Bendukidze & Mark Stoneking published in Annals of Human Genetics (2005) 69,401-412. (pdf).

Research Paradigms for Studying the Kurds

• Professor Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan University) (2009). Prolegomena to the study of the kurds (pdf). Published in 2009, Iran and the Caucasus, 13, pp.1-58.

Kurdish Music

• The Kamkaran
• Greek and Iranic (Perso-Kurdish) musical Tradition: Musical piece by Ardeshir Kamkar, Mathaios Tsahouridis and Hussein Zahawi of the classical Sassanian (now Kurdish and Persian style) with Greco-Byzantine style . They produced a CD album called “From Pontos to Persia” – “Απο τον Πόντο στην Περσία” released in 2003.
• Kuwat Music Site

Nowruz in Kurdistan and Kurdish Folklore 

• Professor Kreyenbroek The Kurdish Romance Mem E Alan
• BBC Report (March 20, 2010): Nowruz Festival in iraqi Kurdistan