KURD WRITER AMINE AVDAL’S 100th ANNIVERSARY MARKED AT WRITERS’ UNION OF ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Dec 19 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Prominent figure of the Kurdish
national culture, writer, pedagogue Amine Avdal was a representative
of that generation of the Kurdish intellectuals who had great
contribution in development of the Kurdish national culture in the
years of 20-30s in Soviet Armenia. Kurdish intellectual Chaykyaze
Rash-Mstoyan said about it on December 18 at the morning party
organized at the Writers’ Unionof Armenia which was dedicated to
A.Avdal’s 100th anniversary. Chaykyaze Rash mentioned that A.Avdal
was born in Kars, but the family migrated and settled in Armenia after
the genocide implemented by the Ottaman Empire at the beginning of the
20th century. A.Avdal worked at the RA NAS History and Eastern Studies
Institute as a scientific worker, Kurdologist. In words of Chaykyaze
Rash, A.Avdal had a great contribution in the sphere of ethnography and
studies of the Kurdish people as well as in the affair of preparing
Kurdish text-books, gathering folklore, terminology and orthography
of the Kurdish language. A.Avdal’s "Believes of Yezidi Kurds" work
published by the NA Archeology and Ethnography Institute was also
presented at the event. Kurdish patriarchal life, Kurd Yezidis’
historic past, way of living, their believes and religious notions
are presented in the work.