{"id":3524,"date":"2017-04-24T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:01:00","slug":"kurdish-panel-event-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2017\/04\/24\/kurdish-panel-event-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish panel event a success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3525\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3525  \" alt=\"Avros\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros.jpg 825w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Avros-780x585.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avras Taha, Civil Engineer and Former President of American Kurdish Council, New York Chapter, speaks about his life as part of the Panel Discussion: \u201cKurdish Community Perspectives: Impacting our World.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was standing room only at the&#8221;Kurdish Community Perspectives&#8221; event hosted by the Binghamton University Art Museum on Thursday, April 20. Attendees heard presentations from speakers including Avras Taha, who came \u00a0to the U.S. in 1996 from Dohuk, Southern Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers included\u00a0Bahattin Demir, PhD student in history,\u00a0Ekrem Karakoc, associate professor of political science, and\u00a0Nilay Ozok-Gundogan, visiting assistant professor of Ottoman history. Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/libraries\/special-collections\/researchandcollections\/saeedpour.html\">Kurdish Library &amp; Museum Collection<\/a>, spoke about that collection, its creator, Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, and its importance to Kurdish studies.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, attendees enjoyed\u00a0Middle Eastern cuisine prepared by Sibel and Ozge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was standing room only at the&#8221;Kurdish Community Perspectives&#8221; event hosted by the Binghamton University Art Museum on Thursday, April 20. Attendees heard presentations from speakers including Avras Taha, who came \u00a0to the U.S. in 1996 from Dohuk, Southern Kurdistan. Other speakers included\u00a0Bahattin Demir, PhD student in history,\u00a0Ekrem Karakoc, associate professor of political science, and\u00a0Nilay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}