The Miracle of the Kurds

They are the largest people group in the world without a homeland of their
own. Despised and persecuted the world over, they even call themselves
“the people without a friend.” Saddam Hussein tried to wipe them from the
face of the earth, killing several hundred thousand of them in the attempt. Their
sufferings have become legend.

They are the Kurds, descendants of the ancient Medes best known today from the pages of
the Bible--inhabitants of what the world now calls Northern Iraq.

Yet today the Kurds are rebuilding so brilliantly from war and oppression that even their
enemies call it “a miracle.” Six star hotels stand where bombs once fell, shopping malls and
gleaming schools rise where massacres once occurred. National Geographic and Conde
Nast have listed modern “Kurdistan” as a “must-see” tourist destination.