Baran Kurdish

This dictionary is very practical and useful, especially for modern journalistic writing. Given the great profusion of sub-dialects in Kurdish, even within the Kurmanci dialect itself, there will be words that the user will be unable to find in this dictionary, but despite these limitations, created more by the situation of the Kurdish language itself than due to any shortcomings on the part of the compiler, this will likely be the preferred Kurdish dictionary for most English-speaking students of Kurdish. …

A multi-level course for learning the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. The lessons start with the Kurdish alphabet and teaches, revises and practices grammar step by step. They finally reach an upper intermediate level.

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. Having arrived in the small village, he refuses to bow down to Aga Azzi, the seriously corrupt tribal chief and absolute ruler of the area. Baran meets Govend, the village school teacher, who is also rejected by the villagers. Like Baran, she represents another law, that of the young and autonomous Kurdish state. Govend is all the more vulnerable as she is not a married woman.