Aline Jabbari

is a current PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, where her doctoral research focuses on vernacular memorialisation practices amongst post-genocide communities. She is a co-founder and board member of Stichting Hebûn, does programming for the Amsterdam Kurdish Film Festival, and she leads Haar Minaret, a decolonial Islamic community and safe spiritual haven for Muslims on the margins that centres pluralistic Muslim imaginaries and articulations of tafsirs of praxis. Prior, she worked as a lecturer in social sciences at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and designed and taught seminars on Theologies of Liberation at the Deir Mariam Al-Adra Monastery.

To Inhabit the Wind: The Kurd and the politics of recognition

To Inhabit the Wind: The Kurd and the politics of recognition

A young Kurdish writer grapples with what it means to exist outside the politics of appeal and visibility.

7 AUGUST 2026 • By Aline Jabbari
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