Racial profiling and use of excessive force are destroying public confidence in law enforcement. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has sparked nationwide protests and has raised awareness worldwide about the unequal treatment of black people by police in the United States.
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Duraid al-Azdi, often known simply as Ibn Duraid (Arabic: Ø§Ø¨Ù Ø¯Ø±ÙØ¯ Ø§ÙØ£Ø²Ø¯Ùââ; 837 â 933 CE), was a famous Arab poet, lexicographer and philologist during the Abbasid era.
The exact origins of the name Kurd are unclear. The underlying toponym is recorded in Assyrian as Qardu and in Middle Bronze Age Sumerian as Kar-da. Assyrian Qardu refers to an area in the upper Tigris basin, and it is presumably reflected in corrupted form in Arabic (Quranic) Ç¦Å«dÄ«, re-adopted in Kurdish as Cudi. cÃ»dÃ®urdish nationalists claim that the Kurds are descended from the Hurrians and the Medes, (the latter being another Iranian people) and the claimed Median descent is reflected in the words of the Kurdish national anthem : we are the children of the Medes and Kai Khosrow .