Kurds
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A collective religion in an individualistic age
Razib Khan argues that Kurds embracing Zoroastrianism show why people leaving Islam may reasonably return to ancestral faiths, treats the objection that ancestors weren’t really Hindu as pedantic, and notes…
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Iranian Ghee
Prompted by a video on food in Kermanshah, the author argues that copious ghee explains why its cooking is so delicious, and that signature Iranian dishes are variants of Iraqi-Syrian…
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Why language families matter (in an Iranian context)
X.T.M notes that many Iranian surnames cluster by religion and ethnicity, unlike Turkey’s deliberately neutral ones, and that several ‘Persian’ friends turn out to have Kurdish, Bakhtiari or other Iranian…
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Iraq, an old post
Hamid Hussain’s earlier analysis of Iraq’s changing conflict, covering the advances of ISIS, the Shia militia response and Kurdish manoeuvres, is reposted with the poster’s remarks on ISIS punishments such…
