GOMIDAS INSTITUTE

Exhibitions

No Friends but the Mountains: Kurds and Kurdistan in History, Cleveland (Dec. 2018 - May 2019)

Exhibit Information Sheet
Exhibit Information Sheet
Exhibit Information Sheet
Exhibit Display Case
Exhibit Display Case
Exhibit Display Case
Display with works by Arabe Shamo and Amine Avdal
Display with works by Arabe Shamo and Amine Avdal
Display with works by Arabe Shamo and Amine Avdal
Display with 1915 chapbook by Yevgeny Baranov
Display with 1915 chapbook by Yevgeny Baranov
Display with 1915 chapbook by Yevgeny Baranov
Maria Tenazi postcard and work by V. F. Minorsky
Maria Tenazi postcard and work by V. F. Minorsky
Maria Tenazi postcard and work by V. F. Minorsky
Display with work by Ali Ashraf Darvishian
Display with work by Ali Ashraf Darvishian
Display with work by Ali Ashraf Darvishian
Display with silk map of the Mosul region, London, 1852
Display with silk map of the Mosul region, London, 1852
Display with silk map of the Mosul region, London, 1852
Works by Mohammad Mokri, W.B. Harris, and E.B. Soane
Works by Mohammad Mokri, W.B. Harris, and E.B. Soane
Works by Mohammad Mokri, W.B. Harris, and E.B. Soane
Display Case on the Yazidis
Display Case on the Yazidis
Display Case on the Yazidis
Model of Yazidi Lalish shrine from Aknalich, Armenia
Model of Yazidi Lalish shrine from Aknalich, Armenia
Model of Yazidi Lalish shrine from Aknalich, Armenia
Yazidi newspaper
Yazidi newspaper
Yazidi newspaper "Lalish Monthly" from Armenia
Works from various authors in the Yazidi Display Case
Works from various authors in the Yazidi Display Case
Works from various authors in the Yazidi Display Case
Kurdistan Display with portrait of John G. White
Kurdistan Display with portrait of John G. White
Kurdistan Display with portrait of John G. White
Kurdistan Display Case
Kurdistan Display Case
Kurdistan Display Case
Works by the brothers Ordikhane and Jalile Jalil
Works by the brothers Ordikhane and Jalile Jalil
Works by the brothers Ordikhane and Jalile Jalil
Reproductions of Abovian's writings on the Kurds
Reproductions of Abovian's writings on the Kurds
Reproductions of Abovian's writings on the Kurds

EXHIBITIONS

A-Do and the Armenian Population of Van, cir 1915. No Friends but the Mountains: Kurds and Kurdistan in History, Cleveland (Dec. 2018 - May 2019) The Caucasus: A Bibliographic Journey, Cleveland (23 Jan. - 18 Dec. 2017) Armenian Genocide Exhibition, Warsaw (7-27 March 2013)
Photographs from the exhibition No Friends but the Mountains: Kurds and Kurdistan in History held in the John G. White Special Collection of Folklore, Orientalia and Chess at the Cleveland Public Library in the Northeastern US city of Cleveland.

This exhibition was curated by Pietro A. Shakarian, Ph.D. Candidate in History at The Ohio State University.  It was co-sponsored by the Gomidas Institute and is currently ongoing.

It was accompanied by a screening of the 1927 Soviet Armenian film Zare, the first Kurdish film, at the library on 16 March 2019.  Directed by Amo Bek-Nazaryan and starring Maria Tenazi-Tadevosyan, the silent drama depicts a Yazidi romance in Russian Armenia.