Hristo Kyuchukov
Autor(a) de My Name Was Hussein
About the Author
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Obras por Hristo Kyuchukov
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Kyuchukov, Hristo Slavov
Кючуков, Христо Славов - Outros nomes
- Kyuchukov, Christo
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-07-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Bulgaria
- Local de nascimento
- Provadia, Varna, Bulgaria
- Educação
- University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.) (general linguistics (psycholinguistics) (1995)
- Ocupações
- professor of social psychology and applied linguistics
Professor of General Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) - Organizações
- University of Shumen
University of Veliko Tarnovo
Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra
St. Elizabeth University, Bratislava
University of Silesia
Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica (mostrar todos 8)
"Diversity" Balkan Foundation for Cross-cultural education and understanding
Institute of Educational Policy at Open Society Institute-Budapest - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Academician of the International Academy of Sciences for Teacher Training, Moscow (MANPO) (2014)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Prof. Kyuchukov is a Bulgarian Rom. His research interests are in the field of bilingualism, education of Roma and Turkish children in Europe, language acquisition, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, languages in contact, Roma Holocaust and Antigypsyism in Europe. His linguistic research are on Romani, Balkan Turkish, Gagauz and Tatar languages in Bulgaria, and on Bulgarian, Slovak, Russian and German languages.
Kyuchukov introduced the Romani language education in Bulgaria to primary and secondary school children at the beginning of the 1990s, and also introduced new University programs connected to Romani language education at University level. He was responsible for development of educational strategies for Roma and minority children education in Central and East European countries.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 122
- Popularidade
- #163,289
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 33
- ISBN
- 7
Hussein would be considered a dynamic character in this story due to his name change. In the beginning, Hussein talked about how much he loved his family traditions. However, towards the end, Hussein's family was no longer able to participate in those family traditions due to the army's orders. The army even went as far as demanding the family change their names to more Christian traditional names. All of this upset Hussein and changed his life because everywhere he went, he was now called by his new name, Harry. I think this definitely changed Hussein's outlook on life, as it would anyone else. You can tell he's bothered by the change due to the question he poses towards readers at the end following him talking about how everyone else now calls him Harry while his family still calls him Hughsy.
This book was definitely an emotional read. It breaks my heart that Hussein's family was forced to conform to Christian values, especially in his own hometown, Bulgaria. It's extremely unfair in so many ways. I appreciated the outlook this book gave me, however, I think this book should be saved for a history lesson to start a discussion and also give the students a glimpse into how these people's lives changed.… (mais)