Title

Kurdish Student Organization Bench Application

Type

Application

Date

2023-03-08

Student organization

Kurdish Student Organization

Student organization president

Lara Nasrat

Language

English, Kurdish

Description

This is a “Bench Design & Signature Form” filled out by the Kurdish Student Organization. The document includes drawings and designs for bench painting, and it features sketches of images, words, and symbols that reflect the organization’s mission and values. The first panel is the Back Rest/Front View. The background of the panel is the Kurdistan flag: red on top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom, with a yellow sun in the middle. Notes on the margins of the panel indicate that red represents “remembrance for the martyrs that fought to free Kurdistan,” yellow represents a “source of light and life,” white represents “equality and peace,” and green represents “vitality, life, and beauty of Kurdish nature.” “Kurdish Student Organization” is painted in black along the white and green sections of the flag. The second panel is the Seat View. It depicts seven gray, snow-topped mountains against a white background. The mountains are outlined in black. At the bottom of the panel is written “No Friends But The Mountains.” On the margins of the panel are notes about the phrase, identified at the top as a “Kurdish saying” and as a “common Kurdish saying to signify desire for united statehood and reliance on nature for comfort and self identity.” The bottom panel is the Back Rest/Back View. The background is white and features the outline of Kurdistan and its borders in the center, both colored red. On top are written twelve words in three rows, identified in the margins as Kurdish cities: Hewlêr, Silêmanî, Dohuk, Zaxo / Akrê, Amêdî, Halabja, Kobanî / Mahabad, Ranya, Soran, Koye.”