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Është kënaqësi për mua që në emër të Institutit Albanologjik të Prishtinës, në veçanti të Degës së Letërsisë, t’ju përshëndes dhe falënderoj për praninë tuaj në këtë Tryezë shkencore kushtuar njërës prej figurave më të mëdha të letërsisë dhe të mbarë kulturës shqiptare, Jeronim De Radës, me rastin e 200-vjetorit të lindjes.
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In August 2013, New Eastern Europe asked ten experts from across Europe to participate in a survey on the Eastern Partnership programme (EaP). The experts completed a scorecard with a series of categories for each of the six EaP countries.
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The contributions to this special issue describe and analyse the institutional and behavioural dynamics of the political processes that have occurred in Romania since 1989. The country is one of the largest of the East European members of the European Union (EU) with a population and territorial area exceeded only by that of Poland, and the idiosyncrasies of its economic, political and social transition make it an appealing case study of political dynamics in a new democracy. There are the circumstances of its elite continuity and the question of corruption to consider, the positions of minorities, the comparative lateness of its democratic achievements as well as its more recent social convulsions. Largely as a consequence of many of the problems associated with those matters, Romania was able to join the EU only in 2007, although its accession process had been initiated at the same time as in other countries which were admitted to the EU in 2004.
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Migration is a dynamic and changing phenomenon so too is migration scholarship and research. While we understand that migration experience has always been responsive to political and economic environments we continue to search for new approaches and statements about migration’s triggers. Speedy progress in information and communication systems helped people in making informed decisions; improvements in transportation have both increased the number of potential destinations and origin areas contributing to migration. In policy and research papers, we have seen more and more mention of temporary migration, circular migration, and short term migration and so on. Chinese and Indian economic growth, the attraction of the EU and USA to job seekers everywhere, food crisis, environmental hazards as well as large or small scale wars and conflicts will continue to displace people internally and internationally.
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Kurdish Studies has no intention to regularly cover and comment on recent events. However, we are definitely interested in publishing studies, based on serious research and critical reflection, that provide important background or new insights relevant to understanding these events. We would specifically encourage colleagues who could contribute to deepening our understanding of the developments in Syria (or, for that matter, developments affecting the Kurds of Iran, who rarely if ever hit the headlines and who are the most seriously under-studied part of Kurdish society). This special issue of Kurdish Studies is dedicated to studies of the Kurdish language, the oldest branch of Kurdish studies, and the first to find a degree of academic institutionalisation. Compared to other major Middle Eastern languages, Kurdish has received relatively little serious investigation, but there is a gradually growing corpus of empirical and theoretical research, of which the guest editors give a useful overview in the introduction.
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Almost a century ago, Memduh Selim wrote in the Kurdish magazine Jîn, which appeared in Istanbul, about the importance of festivals and commemorations for national awareness, and he urged the Kurds to follow the example of other nations and cultivate their national days. The mobilising potential of such celebrations and the various symbols associated with them has been amply proven in the case of the Kurds. As the major festivals to be celebrated, Memduh Bey mentioned Kurdish New Year (sersal) and the day of Kawa the Blacksmith, the hero who slew the tyrannical king Zahhak. He believed that the latter day was to be celebrated towards the end of summer. Later generations joined the symbol of Kawa’s uprising to the spring festival, making Newroz/Nowruz a festival of rebirth, resistance and liberation. Although other Iranian and Turkic peoples also celebrate Nowruz, the day has acquired a distinct symbolic meaning for the Kurds. The festival and the myth associated with it are shared by Kurds of all countries; it has become a core aspect of Kurdish identity as well as a symbol of the Kurdish struggle against oppression.
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The fifth yearly volume of the Colloquia Humanistica comprises a thematic section on Nation, Natsiya, Ethnie. The subject it discusses has thus far received little attention as a research problem in the Slavia Orthodoxa, the Slavia Romana, the Balkans but also in Central and Eastern Europe.
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