Kurdish Language Kick-Off and Dictionary Book Signing
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MEI and the Washington Kurdish Institute are pleased to welcome author Dr. Michael Chyet at the MEI Library to inaugurate Kurdish classes at WKI in association with MEI's Language Department. Once a language at risk of extinction, Kurdish is quickly gaining importance within Middle Eastern studies -- due in no small part to the efforts of Dr. Chyet, who has tirelessly chronicled the entire language in a Kurdish dictionary recently published by Yale University Press. Dr. Chyet, a researcher at the Library of Congress and senior editor at the Voice of America, will speak about his work and the intricacies of the Kurdish language. Copies of the dictionary will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will be served; space is limited, so come early.
