THE LINK “The Kurds” IS NEW AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Kurds and Pre-Islamic Era

• John Limbert: The Origins of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran (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

Kurds and Dailamities

• The Dailamites of Northern Persia

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

Linguistics

• Linguistic Similarities between Old Persian, Hawraman, Sorani Kurdish and Old Persian

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.

Nowruz in Kurdistan 

• BBC Report (March 20, 2010): Nowruz Festival in iraqi Kurdistan

• Kurdish Heritage Reclaimed - in Smithsonian Magazine (June 2010 edition)