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The Jemal Nebez (JN) Award Committee has decided. Ou second award goes to Professor Khannah Omarkhali. The Board of the Jemal Nebez Foundation has welcomed the decision and was pleased to hear that the candidate was happily surprised and gladly accepted her nomination. Happy Newroz! On our JN Award subpage you can find out why Khannah Omarkhali was chosen. The JN Award Committee headed by Fexriye Adsay has done a thorough job. We publish their statement. In the form of a letter. Congratulations!
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Dear Visitors! Dear friends of the Jemal Nebez Foundation!
Nature shows us how. There can be a new beginning. But it is not yet evident in world politics. It is still old and worn out, and regularly looks helpless when the curtain is torn in one place and the threats and unjustified attacks that the violently divided cultural nation of the Kurds is exposed to - even up to the present day - come to light. And this after all the terrible crimes against them, which have already etched themselves into the world's memory against all taboos.
Yet Kurds, together with their immediate neighbors in the region - Arabs, Turks and Persians - have been instrumental in creating the unique and culturally diverse Middle East! Their arbitrary discrimination in the state reorganization of the region, without protection for minorities, led to further arbitrariness, now within individual states, and even to terrible crimes, such as Anfal! In 1987-88, with this call actually borrowed from the Qoran, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave his compatriots permission to prey on the Kurds in the country.182,000 Kurds fell victim to the Anfal campaign. Mass graves are still being found.
One wishes that the mistakes made in world politics during and after World Wars 1 and 2 would never be repeated! World politics is currently focused on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. What happens next will show whether lessons have been learned and whether world politics has been able to acquire new expertise. That would help all sides. The Ukraine-Russia conflict would be resolved and sustainable peace would be achieved. The necessary increase in knowledge and expertise would ultimately also be applied to the Kurdistan issue, as well as to the Palestine issue.
So let us hope for lessons learned, for new thinking and new expertise in global politics. And let us remain patient, knowing full well that the present remains challenging. The new year,which begins with Newroz 2025, will be at least as tough as the previous ones.
This poem by Franz Grillparzer may help. Our namesake liked it very much. We are delighted to be able to publish it for the first time in Kurdish - in the translation by Abdullah Chuwartai and Kadir Merdini. We searched for a good English translation, to no avail. This is a rudimentary one.
Consolation When happiness and friends flee you, fon't you worry too deeply. How dreary are those autumn days when the splendor of the year’s gone and the leaves have fallen. How the wind’s chasing them. What a barren dance of death. But as soon as spring has sprung, an inheritor appears And in new and shining green,now freely spends What the ancestor took pain to save. Take a breath! and pause to realize The gods are kind again Everywhere’s bliss, and lust and light. New joys, new leaves But not the same, of course.
|  Franz Grillparzer, 1791 - 1872 Austrian Dramatist & Poet |
Jemal Nebez has given much. Apart from his already published works, there are now - through the work on his estate, which Halo Berzinjeyie and Pherset Rosbeiani have actively taken in hand - some more writings to be added, see our latest newsletter 1/2025.
Every time we encounter our namesake’s works, we realize anew how factually and substantively rich he has worked on a wide range of topics.
Yes, a lasting and just peace is possible, both currently in Europe and in the Middle East, if international law is worked on as required. It is never too late. If undesirable developments are recognized and admitted, they can always be mitigated and eventually eliminated!
Finally, we present all Kurds, wherever they may be, in Kurdistan or elsewhere, as well as all our friends, with a bunch of fresh daffodils. Congratulations! Newroz is all around us!
Supporting members are always welcome!
Best regards
The Board
Jemal Nebez Foundation
Non-profit and legally capable
15.03.2025
Here in the gallery below we show some books and writings of our namesake, which are listed on his former website www.jemalnebez.org which is now administered by the Jemal Nebez Foundation.
If you have a not yet listed writing of Jemal Nebez in your possession, please let us know, gladly via our contact form. The goal is a comprehensive directory of the works and writings of our namesake. Any help is welcome.
