War in Kurdish Poetry from the Post-Uprising Period to the end of the ISIS War

Abstract

The many wars in the history of the Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan have put them in a very difficult position. For example، long years of war and hostility between Iraq and Iran in a period 1980 -1988, and the 1990– 1991Gulf War between Iraq and coalition forces، the 2003 Invasion of Iraq which lasted from 19 March to 1 May 2003، named Operation Iraqi Freedom by the USA، and the recent war with The Islamic State (ISIS) and Kurdish forces Peshmarga which have been fighting the Islamic State in northern Iraq since Aug 2014 till now. These wars have had a strong influence on the life of Kurdish people, especially on cultural life and literature. In the following article on war and peace as a theme in Kurdish literature، we will conduct an analysis of new themes that emerged in Kurdish literary topics. We give examples of Kurdish poetry with content related to war and peace and motivations which prompted the authors to use the theme. from a literary standpoint, the scope of the research includes studying texts by contemporary poets such as: Abdullah Pashew, Dilawar Qaradaghi, Jamal Ghambar, Karim Dashti, Bakhtiar Ali and Farhad Pirbal, etc.