scholarly journals Building brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, the gender of nationhood, and the War on Terror

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Sean Glastonbury
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Public Relations Campaign

In the early 2000s, the Kurdistan Regional Government hired a US-based firm to begin a public relations campaign called “The Other Iraq.” Since that time, it has worked with a number of PR and lobbying firms to build a cultural, political, and financial apparatus that I refer to as Brand Kurdistan. This apparatus aims to prove to Western audiencesthat the Kurds are a liberal exception in an illiberal Middle East, and to build prospects of KRG’s eventual national independence. This article explores the connections between Brand Kurdistan and the gendering of Kurdish nationalism, focusing particularly on Kurdish pop diva Helly Luv. In her music, Luv underscores the trope of the “badass” Kurdish woman in the service of Brand Kurdistan’s political and economic projects. Thus, Brand Kurdistan and Helly Luv mutually reproducethe binary world discourse of the war on terror, a discourse aligned with neoconservative American war making and exertions of US empire.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIÇêkirina Marka Kurdistanê: Helly Luv, cinsiyeta netewetiyê, û Şerê li Dijî Terorê Serê salên 2000an, Hikûmeta Herêmî ya Kurdistanê (HHK) şirketeke emerîkî girt da ku helmeteke danenasîna giştî bi navê “Iraqa Din” bi rê ve bibe. Ji hingê ve, hikûmetê ligel çendîn şirketên têkiliyên cemawerî û lobiyê kar kiriye ku mêkanîzmeke çandî, siyasî û darayî ava bike, ya ku ez wek "Marka Kurdistanê" bi nav dikim. Ev mêkanîzm armanc dike ku li cemawerên Rojavayî biçespîne ku Kurd istisnayeke lîberal in di Rojhilata Navîn a dûr ji lîberaliyê de, û wisa jî derfet û şansên serbixweyiya neteweyî ya HHKyê bilindtir bike. Ev meqale li têkiliyên di navbera Marka Kurdistanê û bi cinsiyetkirina netewegeriya kurdî dikole, û ji bo vê yekê li ser Helly Luva stranbêja kurd hûr dibe. Luv di muzîka xwe de balê dikêşe ser têmaya jinên Kurdistanê yên “neguhdar/asî” di xizmeta projeyên siyasî û aborî yên Marka Kurdistanê de. Wisa jî, Marka Kurdistanê û Helly Luv bi awayekî muteqabil dîskûra duserî ya şerê li dijî terorê vesaz dikin, dîskûrek ku hevterîb e ligel şerkeriya muhafizekariya nû ya emerîkî û hewlên împeretoriya Dewletên Yekbûyî yên Emerîkayê.ABSTRACT IN SORANIDirûstkirdinî Brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, cênderî neteweyatî w Şerrî Dij Be Têror Le seretay salanî 2000, Hikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan şerîkeyekî emrîkîy girt bo berêwebirdinî hellmetêkî pêwendiye cemaweriyekan be nawî "Êraqî Dîke". Lew katewe, hikûmet legell çendîn şerîkeyî pêwendiye cemaweriyekan û lobî karî kirdûwe bo dirûstkirdinî amrazêkî kultûrî, siyasî û darayî, ke min nawî denêm "Brand Kurdistan". Em amraze amanciyetî le cemawerekanî rojavayî biçespênê ke kurd nimûneyekî yektay komelgay lîbiral in le Rojhellatî Nawerastî dûr le lîbiralî, û bem şêweye beqay Hikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan bo bedesthênanî serbexoyîy neteweyî ziyatir bikat. Em wutare sebaret pêwendiyekanî nêwan Brand Kurdistan û becênderkirdinî netewegerrîy kurdî ye, be taybetîş çaw le Helly Luvî dîvay popî kurd dekat. Le mosîqayekey da Luv têmay jinî kurdî "yaxî" le xizmet projekanî siyasî û aborîy Brand Kurdistan da dexate pêş. Bem şêweye, Brand Kurdistan û Helly Luv pêkewe ew dîskûrî cîhanî duberekîy le ser şerrî dij be terror serlenwê dirûst deken, dîskûrêk ke hawterîbe legell şerrkerîy muhafizekarekanî nwêy emrîka û hewllekanî împeretorîy Dewlete Yekgirtûyekanî Emrîka.

The Challenges of Implementing E-Commerce in Kurdistan of Iraq

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 528
Author(s):  
Ako Abubakr Jaffar ◽  
Mazen Ismaeel Ghareb ◽  
Karzan Hussein Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Unique Region ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The World

The Retailers all over the world are prospering from the burgeoning trend of online shopping. Kurdistan Regional Government is still struggling to grow its e-commerce markets. On the other hands e-commerce in Various countries in the Middle East have some of the world’s highest internet and mobile penetration rates. Alternative payments methods are quickly expanding, and having access to some of the world’s most coveted natural resources that allows countries in their region to have some of the highest GDP in the world. There are several challenges prevalent in the KRG Region market that will require international merchants to develop strategies based on innovation and vigilance. This unique region is plagued with complications many other countries have little to no experience with e-commerce, which highlights the need for retailers to have a deep understanding as to how this region operates before they can begin finding solutions. One of the biggest concerns today's consumers have is the risk of fraud when they are shopping online. With highly sophisticated malware and perceptive cybercriminals, customers' card and bank information can easily be stolen if a merchant does not take the proper security measures. In this paper we summarize all challenges need to be addressed in KRG in order to make correct steps to apply e-commerce in KRG. Finally, the recommendations and framework are proposed for e-commerce to encourage government, organizations, and people to take advantages from e-commerce.

Conspiracy and foreign policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Aistrope ◽  
Roland Bleiker
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
The One

Conspiracies play a significant role in world politics. States often engage in covert operations. They plot in secret, with and against each other. At the same time, conspiracies are often associated with irrational thinking and delusion. We address this puzzle and highlight the need to see conspiracies as more than just empirical phenomena. We argue that claims about conspiracies should be seen as narratives that are intrinsically linked to power relations and the production of foreign policy knowledge. We illustrate the links between conspiracies, legitimacy and power by examining multiple conspiracies associated with 9/11 and the War on Terror. Two trends are visible. On the one hand, US officials identified a range of conspiracies and presented them as legitimate and rational, even though some, such as the alleged covert development of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, are now widely considered false. On the other hand, conspiracies circulating in the Arab-Muslim world were dismissed as irrational and pathological, even though some, like those concerned with the covert operation of US power in the Middle East, were based on credible concerns.

The New Style in Political Campaigns: Lodge in New Hampshire, 1964

1968 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Vasilew
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Direct Mail ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
The Public ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Public Relations Campaign

In the 1964 New Hampshire Republican primary, with very little money, no political power base, and not even a genuine candidate, the “Draft Lodge” movement brought off a stunning victory over Goldwater and Rockefeller organizations which spent huge sums, between them controlled nearly all the sources of Republican power in New Hampshire, and had earnest candidates who tramped all over the snow-covered landscape shaking hands by the thousands and making speeches by the hundreds. How that victory was achieved is an instructive lesson in the vagaries of American presidential politics. It also happens to be a brilliant illustration of what has become known as the “public relations” campaign which, it turns out, works even better in primaries than in regular elections. Here then is the story of a political victory put together out of press releases and announcements, a couple of pieces of direct-mail advertising, a five-minute television film, and the mistakes of the other candidates. As for Lodge himself, he was 10,000 miles away in Saigon insisting he was not a candidate.

Review: Islam and politics in Iranian Kurdistan at a time of revolution: the life of Ahmad Moftizadeh

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Revolutionary Regime

Ali Ezzatyar, The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan: Ethnic and Religious Implications in the Greater Middle East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xv + 246 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-56525-9 hardback).For a brief period in 1979, when the Kurds had begun confronting Iran’s new Islamic revolutionary regime and were voicing demands for autonomy and cultural rights, Ahmad Moftizadeh was one of the most powerful men in Iranian Kurdistan. He was the only Kurdish leader who shared the new regime’s conviction that a just social and political order could be established on the basis of Islamic principles. The other Kurdish movements were firmly secular, even though many of their supporters were personally pious Muslims.

Sectarian struggle in the Middle East and the new Alliances

2019 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Harith Qahtan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Era ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Other World ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
New Formation

Our Islamic world passes a critical period representing on factional, racial and sectarian struggle especially in the Middle East, which affects the Islamic identification union. The world passes a new era of civilization formation, and what these a new formation which affects to the Islamic civilization especially in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon. The sectarian struggle led to heavy sectarian alliances from Arab Gulf states and Turkey from one side and Iran states and its alliances in the other side. The Sunni and Shia struggle are weaken the World Islamic civilization and it is competitive among other world civilization.

THE EFFECT OF EVENT AND PUBLICITY TOWARDS BRAND AWARENESS ON FINANCIAL SERVICE AUTHORITY (OJK)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 281-292
Author(s):  
Donant Alananto Iskandar ◽  
Siti Dewi Sri Ratna Sari
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
The Other ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Financial Service Authority ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People

This study aims to find out the effect of event and publicity towards brand awareness on Indonesia Financial Service Authority, usually called with its abbreviation OJK. The research background is because OJK was newly established as a financial service authority, replacing Bank Indonesia. Therefore, exploring the awareness of the people about the function of OJK is interesting to be a research subject.This method used in this study is the quantitative method with 82 samples as the questionnaire respondents. The population chosen was an OJK’s event held at LPPI and Indonesia Banking School with 122 participants. Validity, reliability, normality, multicollinearity, heteroskedasticity, correlation, determination, regression, hypothesis and ANOVA tests are used as a statistical approach in order to define the outcome of the survey. The results of this study are both event and publicity have a positive and a significant influence towards brand awareness partially and simultaneously. As the conclusion, OJK should continue its programs. On the other hand, OJK should find another public relations strategy to accelerate people awareness about the duties of OJK. Keywords: Event, Publicity, Brand Awareness

Yemen and the World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Bonnefoy
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
International Security ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
International Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Global War

Contemporary Yemen has an image-problem. It has long fascinated travelers and artists, and to many the country embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, Yemen is globally perceived as somehow both marginal and passive, while also being dangerous and problematic. The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global “war on terror” has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen's complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers--resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies. Yemen and the World aims at correcting these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world's interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen's role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange--globalization, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism--to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.

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