Acknowledgments

I would first like to thank my colleagues at CAL who have made valuable contributions in both substance and style to this booklet. Dora Johnson, Susan Somach, Margo Pfleger, and Grace Burkart have read drafts, and their suggestions have as always provided a sense of perspective and saved me from the excesses of my own writing; and Sonia Kundert and Vincent Sagart have added their special skills to the design and execution of the final product.

Succeeding drafts of the booklet have been read and commented on by a number of other reviewers, and their comments have been incorporated. My own, and CAL's, sincere thanks go to the following people:

Mr. Douglas Gilzow,

Peace Corps

Dr. Mehrdad Izady,

Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Mr. Tom Kivlan,

Team Leader, Disaster Assistance Response Team, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State

Mr. Joe LeBaron,

Deputy Director of Iran and Iraq Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Dr. Pary Karadaghi,

Executive Director, Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc.

Dr. Mustafa Karadaghi,

Editor, Kurdistan Times

I owe a special debt to Dr. Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, Founder and Director of the Kurdish Library and Kurdish Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Besides reading a draft and referring me to Dr. Izady, Dr. Saeedpour gave me complete access to the library including a place to plug in my computer, and saw to it that I didn't starve while there. She also lent me a number of papers which have given this booklet depth and detail. Most importantly, she shared with me insights gathered over years and years of observations of Kurds and their strategies for coping with American life; these insights have formed the backbone of the last section of this booklet, and I am grateful.

On a personal level, I want to express my thanks to Dr. Habibullah Tegey and Mr. John Anderson for solving some of the practical problems encountered in the writing of this Fact Sheet.

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