Berzeri babik · Miran tribe
Berzeri
A Kurdish family from the Kocer region of Derik in Rojava (northeast Syria), and from villages on the Iraqi side of the border. A babik (Baivk, Tîre) of the nomadic Miran tribe.
The name Berzeri comes from Berê Zer in Kurdish — “yellow stones” or “yellow lands.” Among the Miran, families and babiks (tîre) were often named after the geography of the place they usually resettled in the Zozan (summer pastures).
From the journal
All →Kurdish nomad tent in Armenia, 1936
A 1936 chromolithograph of a Kurdish nomad tent — beauty and hardship held in one frame of reşmal life, the black house.
A Family of Kurdish Nomads, from Voyage en Perse, 1825
An 1825 French School lithograph — a Kurdish nomad family from Gaspard Drouville’s Voyage en Perse: tent, flock, daily life, and tribe.
Welcome to the Berzerî archive
An introduction to Berzerî — a babik of the Miran — and to this family archive of names, places, and memory.