Kurdish Muslim who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria. At the peak of his power, his rule included Yemen, Hejaz, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and parts of North Africa. Genghis Khan (1162-1227) Nation: Mongol Empire Born as Temujin, established the Mongol Empire and became the ...
He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements which sought to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War. Whereas some in the Arab world lauded Saddam for opposing the United States and ...
Komitas wrote over three thousand songs in Armenian, Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian, and also contributed significantly to the modern Armenian Badarak. His main contribution was to rediscover Armenian folk music. He spent years traveling throughout the provinces and visiting many villages listening to ...
Karim Mohammedzadeh (Persian: کریم محمدزاده; b. 1 July 1963 – 1 April 1990) was a Kurdish dissident who was assassinated in Sweden in 1990. Karim Mohammedzadeh was born in Iranian Kurdistan and came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1988 and immedia...