Kurds in Lebanon

Kurds in Lebanon

The Kurds in Lebanon have not received public or official attention except at times when Kurdish youngsters were needed to fight a certain battle for a certain part, or at times when Kurdish votes were need by a local leader to be successful in an election. [Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography - Page 25 by Lokman I. Meho, Kelly L. Maglaughlin] There is virtually nothing published on Kurds in Lebanon, because of failure of the Kurdish community to produce necessary intelligence. Kurds in Lebanon are considered as Sunni Muslims with no special status accorded to their ethnicity.

Estimates about the number of Kurds in Lebanon prior to 1985 were between 60,000 and 90,000 people. [Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography - Page 28 by Lokman I. Meho, Kelly L. Maglaughlin]

There are tens of thousands of Kurds in Lebanon, mainly in Beirut. [Historical Dictionary of Lebanon - Page 125by Asʻad AbuKhalil]

History

The existence of a community of at least 100,000 Kurds is the product of several waves of immigrants, the first major wave was in the period of 1925-1950 when thousands of Kurds fled violence and poverty in Turkey [A Modern History of the Kurds - Page 485by David MacDowall ] . Kurds in Lebanon go back far as the twelfth century A.D. when the Ayyubids arrived there. Over the next few centuries, several other Kurdish families were sent to Lebanon by a number of powers to maintain rule in those regions, others moved as a result of poverty and violence in Kurdistan. These Kurdish groups settled in and ruled many areas of Lebanon for a long period of time. [Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography - Page 27 by Lokman I. Meho, Kelly L. Maglaughlin] Kurds of Lebanon settled in Lebanon because of Lebanon's pluralistic society. [Lebanon a Country Study - Page 83by Federal Research Division]

See also

*Kurdistan
*Kurdish people
*Demographics of Lebanon

References

External links

* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SBL/is_16/ai_n13807710 The Kurds in Lebanon: a social and historical overview]
* [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/meho/meho-kawtharani.pdf The Kurdish community in Lebanon by Lokman I. Meho* and Farah W. Kawtharani]
* [http://www.kdp-lebanon.com/ Kurdistan Democratic Party Lebanon]


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