The Kurdish Institute of Paris (french: Institut kurde de Paris), founded in February 1983 by (amongst others) film producer

Yılmaz Güney Yılmaz Güney (' Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary wor ...

and poet

Cigerxwîn Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn () (1903 – October 22, 1984) was a Kurdish writer and poet. He is known to be one of the most influential Kurdish writers and poets in the Kurdistan region of the Middle East, and his work has been renewed for the creat ...

, is an organization focused on the

Kurdish language Kurdish (, ) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish constitutes a dialect continuum, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European language ...

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

, and

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

.About the Kurdish Institute
/ref> It is one of the principal academic centers of the Kurdish language in Europe. Its main publications include the linguistic journal ''Kurmancî'', a monthly press review about Kurdish issues titled ''Bulletin de liaison et d'information'' (Bulletin of Contact and Information), and ''Études Kurdes'', a research journal in French. Most of the institute's activities are focused on the

Kurmanji Kurmanji ( ku, کورمانجی, lit=Kurdish, translit=Kurmancî, also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northern dialect of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Sy ...

dialect of Kurdish. The institute has a library preserving thousands of historical documents, pamphlets and periodicals about

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

. Two representatives from the French Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Culture provide the link between the institute and the

Government of France The Government of France ( French: ''Gouvernement français''), officially the Government of the French Republic (''Gouvernement de la République française'' ), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who ...

. The institute is headed by

Kendal Nezan Kendal Nezan is a French-Kurdish nuclear physicist and president of the Kurdish Institute of Paris. He was born in Turkey. He is also a board member of the Washington Kurdish Institute. In 1975, Nezan established the France-Kurdistan Society, w ...

as president, and

Abbas Vali Professor Abbas Vali (born 1949) is a Kurdish political and social theorist specialising in modern and contemporary political thought and modern Middle Eastern Politics. Biography Vali was born in 1949 in Mahabad, Iran. He received his primary an ...

(

Swansea University , former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wa ...

) and Fuad Hussein (

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

) as the two vice presidents.

''Kurmancî''

is a linguistic magazine published twice a year since 1987 to spread the results of the Kurdish Institute's linguistic seminars on problems of terminology and standardisation of the Kurdish language. All issues of this periodical are available on the publisher's website, as is the Kurdish–French–English–Turkish index of the first twenty issues. The name is a Kurdish spelling of the name of the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language,

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External links

Kurdish Institute of Paris

Online books available in the library of the Kurdish Institute of ParisKurmancî official website
{{Portal bar, France Kurdish diaspora in Europe Kurdish organisations Organizations based in Paris Diaspora organizations in France Kurdish culture in France

''Kurmancî''

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