ABSTRACT
Although the United States (US) is about as far away from Kurdistan as is geographically possible, it has a well established tradition of Kurdish Studies. Kurdish scholars in the US have also created the Kurdish Studies Association as an affiliated organization of Middle East Studies Association of North America. One of the most celebrated early American devotees of Kurdish Studies was Dr. Vera Beaudin Saeedpour. Her Kurdish library came to contain more than 2,000 texts in Kurdish and other languages, while her museum, opened in 1988, possessed Kurdish artifacts, art, costumes, and maps. Edmund Ghareeb published another well-known study in the formative period of modern Kurdish Studies in the US in 1981. Nader Entessar, a retired professor and chairman of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at the University of South Alabama, was one of the first modern scholars of Kurdish Studies in the United States.
