Via Save Roj TV, Caucaz has published an article on the Yezidis in Georgia. Although significantly smaller than the Yezidi community in Armenia, Georgian Yezidis are interesting because they are largely urbanized and the division as to ethnic identity is not as large or problematic as it is here. Therefore, as we don’t hear a […]
Via the International Herald Tribune, The Associated Press reports that four Yezidis, including three children, set themselves on fire today. The act of self immolation was in protest at the inaction of the police in investigating the death of the children’s father. Their grandmother also set herself on fire opposite the Presidential Palace on Yerevan’s […]
I’ve just come back from a quick drink with Tom de Waal, Caucasus Editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, before he had to shoot off for some reception, and IWPR’s Armenia Country Director, Seda Muradyan. Beforehand, Tom launched the Russian translation of his book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and […]
Via Georgien, news of a report on Nationalism, Conflict and Minorities in the South Caucasus published by Minority Rights Group International.
It is ten years since the former Soviet Union Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia became independent states of the South Caucasus. This report sheds light on a region which is under-reported and […]
Yezidis, Alagyaz, Aragatsotn Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 1998
UNICEF in Armenia have an interesting press release on their web page highlighting new moves to tackle the problem of minority education in the Republic. For sure, school drop out rates are higher among rural minority communities than for Armenian ones with […]
Shamiram, Aragotsotn Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
As a matter of interest, and especially for me as I recently returned from Tbilisi where I made contact with the Yezidi there, a film crew from from Georgia was recording the event. There was also a rather nice Yezidi girl, originally from […]
Shamiram, Aragotsotn Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Today saw this year’s annual festival in the Yezidi village of Shamiram. This was the third time I’ve attended the event and has become somewhat of a photographic “ritual” for me. Interesting to note that Shamiram still has no water and residents have […]
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
As previously mentioned, I’ve just returned from Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia, with Nahro Zagros, the Yorkshire Kurd. An ethno-musicologist visiting Armenia to research the musical traditions of the Republic’s Yezidi minority, when Nahro mentioned he was going to travel north with the […]
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Sorry for the silence since the last post, but I’ve just returned from a few days in Tbilisi, capital of the neighbouring Republic of Georgia. Thanks to Nahro appaZagros, the Yorkshire Kurd who is documenting the musical traditions of Armenia’s largest minority, I had the […]
Ferik, Armavir Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Ferik, Armavir Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
