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He wrote 24 books and is credited with many works, among which are the editing and commentary of poems of Malaye Jaziri in Sorani Kurdish, a translation of Khani's works into Sorani Kurdish, a translation of Koran into Kurdish, the first Kurdish-Persian dictionary in Iran, and the translation of the poems of Khayyam into Kurdish, with the same rhythm.
Alvand is newer form of *Harvant, (from Indo-European > Indo-Iranian root of *har), means "high", and vanta (akin to German "bund" and English bond, Persian and Kurdish "band," meaning "connected to" or "that of," "bound to" etc.
The Kurds, a majority of whom speak Kurdish, make up 9% of the population and live mostly in the northeast corner of Syria, as well in pockets all along the northern borders of Syria with Turkey, and demographically dominate the district of Afrin, west of Aleppo, though sizable Kurdish communities live in most major Syrian cities as well.
On 1 September 2007 Williams visited the Kurdish Cultural Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where he spoke of the importance of the maintenance of the Kurdish language.
In 1996 he published a book in Arabic explaining the basics of astrology; the book was a big success and was even pirated and translated into other languages such as the Kurdish language in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Because laws passed after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état banned songs in minority languages, especially in Kurdish (deeming them separatist), Kalan's output has sometimes met governmental opposition.
He has translated works of renowned authors such as Jack London, Yaşar Kemal, Aziz Nesin and Orhan Pamuk into Kurdish.
The lyrics of their first two albums are almost exclusively in Persian and Urdu, with the exception of a Turkish song on Nine Heavens, but their third album, Sumud featured mostly Persian songs with two songs in Turkish and one each in Palestinian Arabic and the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish.
The Kurdish PEN Center actively works with Kurdish writers in all parts of Kurdistan to promote the Kurdish language and literature.
University of Sulaymaniyah, College of Languages, Département of Kurdish Language.