Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Esmaeil Barwasi

PhD in Arabic Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Department of Arabic Language and Literature

Abstract

Varzer, Iraqi Kurdish poet, is one of the contemporary poets of the 20th century, whose lifetime was spent in the shadow of the totalitarian Baath regime over the Kurdistan Region, and he witnessed the commission of crimes and genocide against the Kurdish people and their suffering. In such a situation, Varzer, as a committed poet, turned his poems into a mirror of the sufferings of the people and the systematic violence and crimes inflicted on them by the Baath regime, and narrated the sufferings of the people deprived of the right to life and freedom in the extremist fascist-totalitarian system. Since so far no independent research has investigated the consequences of the hegemony of the totalitarian Baath regime in the poems of Sharif Varzer, the author intends to analyze the consequences of the rule of the Baath regime in the poems of the poet. The fundamental issue of the current research is that the manifestations of authoritarianism and totalitarianism that lead to committing crimes, violence and genocide, how and in what forms are they manifested in the poet's poems and with what concepts are they connected? In order to investigate this issue, the author has used the descriptive-analytical method based on the sociological investigation of the poet's compositions. Massacre and genocide, forced displacement and transfer to forced labor camps, torture and systematic violence, destruction and displacement of people are the most obvious results of the rule of the totalitarian Baath regime over the Kurdish regions, which are represented in Varzer's

Keywords

• Sharif Varzer
• Totalitarianism
• Crime
• Genocide
• Violence