Yergoo Khosk...
I've always wanted to title a blog entry "Yergoo Khosk", granted I wish it could be accompanied by a picture of me sitting behind a desk in an office pretending to write something yet looking straight into the camera (like Armenian principals in Yearbooks)
I wanted to let readers know about another great event taking place at the Hollywood Bowl on July 8th. Mozart and the Magic Flute is what the evening has been titled and in addition to the Los Angeles Philharmonic there will be an appearance by Isabella Bayrakdarian. (Once again my family has already jumped on the bandwagon and we're slated to attend) www.bayrakdarian.com
I had only heard of Isabella Bayrakdarian in passing then one Sunday afternoon after going to church at Soorp Garabed church in Hollywood my cousin and I were having lunch at Falafel Arax and I asked her what she wanted to do with the rest of our afternoon. She suggested we go downtown and see if we could get in to see Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. I agreed since it was a matinee and an Operetta. When the show was over my cousin led me to some side door that led us to some underground backstage area where we met Isabella and the gentleman playing Figaro. It was a brief meeting but she is just as sweet as her beautiful voice!
Now on to my "Yergrort" khosk..ha ha! I read the following article today, http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9868 about the Yezidi community in Armenia. I had never heard of the Yezidi until about 5 years ago but since then I've been reading anything I come across to educate myself further, (I even watched Vodka Lemon but that didn't help too much) but I'm still confused. The reason why I'm putting my ignorance on this subject "out there" is because I'm just not getting it and I do wish to be enlightened and I'm curious how repats can identify Yezidi's in Armenian especially since some have Armenian names and most if not all speak Armenian.
My general understanding prior to reading this article was the Yezidi are a Kurdish non-muslim community with their own language but they speak Kurdish and Armenian as well. However this article states that some Yezidi don't claim Kurdish nationality and consider Yezidi their nationality and their religion is Sharafadin. Ugh, now I'm confused all over again.... is it a religion or a nationality? Is this generallly just a debated issue much like Judaism? I'm not trying to start up a politically heated issue here, I'm just trying to learn what the real facts are so I can be "PC".
Levon, I'm reading your blogs about arriving in Yerevan and I'm jealous! I wish I could fast forward the next 2 months so I can be there too!!!!
I wanted to let readers know about another great event taking place at the Hollywood Bowl on July 8th. Mozart and the Magic Flute is what the evening has been titled and in addition to the Los Angeles Philharmonic there will be an appearance by Isabella Bayrakdarian. (Once again my family has already jumped on the bandwagon and we're slated to attend) www.bayrakdarian.com
I had only heard of Isabella Bayrakdarian in passing then one Sunday afternoon after going to church at Soorp Garabed church in Hollywood my cousin and I were having lunch at Falafel Arax and I asked her what she wanted to do with the rest of our afternoon. She suggested we go downtown and see if we could get in to see Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. I agreed since it was a matinee and an Operetta. When the show was over my cousin led me to some side door that led us to some underground backstage area where we met Isabella and the gentleman playing Figaro. It was a brief meeting but she is just as sweet as her beautiful voice!
Now on to my "Yergrort" khosk..ha ha! I read the following article today, http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9868 about the Yezidi community in Armenia. I had never heard of the Yezidi until about 5 years ago but since then I've been reading anything I come across to educate myself further, (I even watched Vodka Lemon but that didn't help too much) but I'm still confused. The reason why I'm putting my ignorance on this subject "out there" is because I'm just not getting it and I do wish to be enlightened and I'm curious how repats can identify Yezidi's in Armenian especially since some have Armenian names and most if not all speak Armenian.
My general understanding prior to reading this article was the Yezidi are a Kurdish non-muslim community with their own language but they speak Kurdish and Armenian as well. However this article states that some Yezidi don't claim Kurdish nationality and consider Yezidi their nationality and their religion is Sharafadin. Ugh, now I'm confused all over again.... is it a religion or a nationality? Is this generallly just a debated issue much like Judaism? I'm not trying to start up a politically heated issue here, I'm just trying to learn what the real facts are so I can be "PC".
Levon, I'm reading your blogs about arriving in Yerevan and I'm jealous! I wish I could fast forward the next 2 months so I can be there too!!!!
posted by LORI at 2:00 AM
1 Comments:
Lori, Yezidis are quite ancient, they have an interesting "pagan" religion, which is little-understood and seemingly-complicated. The Kurds are, to put it roughly, Yezidis who accepted Islam. Nowadays, however, for political reasons Yezidis like to claim an identity separate from Kurds in general.
So, the languages are more or less the same (although there are different kinds of Kurdish, like Armenian, and I think the ones in Iraq speak a dialect that differs from the ones in Turkey and Armenia, too), and the people seem to have the same root as well, but the religions are vastly different.
Well, I'm not an expert, it's all a bit vague, but a good Google/Wikipedia search will flood you with more than you'd like to know.
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