Category Archives: General

Co-Chair Meg Munn MP takes a look at the position of Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan and concludes that the APPG has been “extremely impressed by the willingness of the Kurdistan Regional Government to show imaginative and humanitarian leadership and expect that … Continue reading →

The outgoing British Consul-General in Erbil, Chris Bowers, concludes that the Kurdistan Region is going to be and do just fine.  The people deserve it. Full article here http://www.rudaw.net/english/science/columnists/4935.html  

Falah Mustafa Bakir, the Head of the KRG Foreign Relations Department writes   An estimated 182,000 Kurdish people were murdered during the Anfal campaign. To put this into context, that’s enough people to fill Wembley Stadium twice over. Today the … Continue reading →

Gary Kent’s latest column in Rudaw My own view is that Kurdistan is showing how the past can be overcome but that it is essential that the genocide be formally recognized. Given the leading role played by John Major and … Continue reading →

Chris Bowers, the British consul general in Erbil, examines the role of the media in a free society. As a government representative, I am a little wary about commenting on the media in the Kurdistan Region.  But as a former … Continue reading →

The Kurdistan Regional Government’s High Representative to the UK today told British companies that Kurdistan’s economy is booming and there are many opportunities to do business there. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman was speaking at a lunch hosted in her honour … Continue reading →

This week’s column by Gary Kent A paradox I have found in travelling around Kurdistan is that I often learn as much about Britain as about Kurdistan. Exposure to a different culture and thinking forces me to re-examine what I … Continue reading →

The Jews of Kurdistan Lecture by Professor Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic, UCLA and Ariel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise Royal Geographical Society, London Thursday 28th June 2012 Lecture by Professor Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and … Continue reading →

DISCUSSING the nature of national identity and its complex links to political power doesn’t apply just in Scotland. The Kurdistan region in Iraq is also such a place; it has about five million people, a strong historic identity and is … Continue reading →

Westminster is in recess, the focus is on the Queen’s 60th anniversary and I have been back to Kurdistan for my ninth visit which prompts me to offer a view from Westminster rather than about the UK Parliament. To paraphrase … Continue reading →