The Kurd
THE STORY OF A NATION'S SURVIVAL
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The three men started out from the camp around
Walking between the camp and the border usually took around three hours under normal conditions. However, their estimation was that it would take them a little over five hours because of the darkness and possible blockage of the path by Iraqi Patrols. At one moment, they thought they heard the sound of cars, but they realized it was the sound of a far-away water pump. The quiet nights carry strange sounds, but they had to make sure of every sound that echoed.
Two hours into their journey, Najib stopped and motioned to them to sit without uttering a sound. They knew that he was giving them a few minutes' rest. They sat to relax, but their alertness did not leave them. Kaya took his water bottle and took a sip. Suddenly, there were voices from the direction they were heading to. Najib immediately motioned to them to stay quite and not to move. Each had his gun in his hand with the safety latch off now. Kaya sat down with one knee on the ground, and Jamshid was on his belly pointing the gun towards the direction of the sound, while Najib crept slowly towards the sound and vanished into the darkness. He reappeared a few minutes later and crept back to them quietly.
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The Kurd is both a political and a love story. It portrays the struggle of the Kurdish Nation against the atrocities of the ruling regime of Saddam Hussein and the mass murders that took place against the Kurds during his rule.
It is a story of a poor shepherd boy, Serdar, whose luck brought him across a rich Kurdish business man, who when he discovered his intelligence and abilities decided to sponsor and educate him all the way through school and college, whereof he sent him to England to study medicine and become a medical doctor.
Serdar finds his heart throb in the UK, the daughter of an ex-British diplomat. They fall madly in love and get married and have a family, when he decides to return home to Kurdistan and practice medicine there, he goes through a number of grueling experiences with local Iraqi authorities and intelligence services and thus finds himself dragged into the Kurdish rebellion, and joining the rebel forces (Peshmarga).
To escape capture and death by the local Saddam authorities, he takes to the mountains and works as a medical doctor at one of the rebels camps; that’s when his life, love and devotion split between his children and family, and between his people, nation and land.
The Kurd is a story of survival and struggle for freedom and peace of a nation against the atrocities of one of the worst and most cruel dictatorships that the twentieth century ever experienced, namely the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
About the Author
The Author belongs to a prominent Kurdish Family, whose roots is buried and goes back to at least six or seven centuries of the Modern Iraqi history. Born in Baghdad in 1945 where his father served in a number of important governmental positions, but after the revolution of 1958 which toppled the Royal regime in Iraq, he along with his parents left Iraq and lived the rest of his life in exile.
Although he grew and studied in foreign schools in exile, where he lead a successful life, yet his heart remained as a Kurd with a strong longing to his home country. He worked on a number of books, mostly written in his native language, out of which his Family Tree is the most important one and is currently being published.
A mathematician by education and a Management Consultant by profession, the events of this novel were inspired when the author saw a video film that was taken by foreign press of "Halabcha" village in Iraqi Kurdistan near the boarders of Iran after its bombardment with poison gas by the Iraqi armed forces. The scenes of hundreds of dead women, children and old aged Kurds scattered on the streets of the village as a result of this bombardment (nearly five thousand perished within the hour) lead the author to attempt and try to portray through this novel the agony of a nation that he belongs to the rest of the World and bring forth their struggle for survival.