No friends but the mountains
"No friends but the mountains" is a Kurdish proverb which is expressed to signify their feeling of betrayal, abandonment and loneliness due to their history as a semi-stateless ethnic minority in the Middle East without faithful allies.[1][2][3][4]
See also
- No Friend But the Mountains, memoir by Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani
References
- ^ "'The Kurds have no friends but the mountains'". October 10, 2019 – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ Bulloch, John; Morris, Harvey (1992). No Friends But the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195080759.
- ^ "A history of selling out the Kurds, people with 'no friends but the mountains'". news.yahoo.com.
- ^ Hjelmgaard, Kim. "Who are the Kurds? A Middle Eastern people with 'no friends but the mountains'". USA TODAY.
Further reading
- Literature
- Matloff, Judith (2017). No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands. United Kingdom: Hachette UK. ISBN 9780465097890.
- Documentary
- Kae Bahar, Claudio von Planta (2017). No Friends but the Mountains: An oasis of hope in a desert of hatred and fear (Film). Joka Films, Von Planta Productions.