“The Great Mother’s Vigil”—fiction
After a grieving mother is gunned down, seven children become the custodians of a village’s shattered memory.
Kurdish Language at a Crossroads: An Interview with Jaffer Sheyholislami
The future of the Kurdish language depends on mother-tongue education, expanded literacy, and — possibly — digital tools.
My Uncle Jamshid—excerpted from Bachtyar Ali’s novel
This powerful tale of a man freed from prison asks: What if surviving torture meant never quite returning to earth?
The Markaz Review Tour of Kurdish Artists & Photographers
Kurdish artists occupy a fascinating locus in global culture, spread across four countries and a large diaspora in Europe and North America.
The Well of Destiny—excerpted from Mehmed Uzun’s novel
In Ottoman-era Istanbul, a Kurdish family in exile witnesses the resurrection of a child that will shape their lives for generations.
Ez Kurdim: Meditations on Ritual, Gathering, and Being
Through pomegranates, card games, motherhood, and community, a Kurdish American writer reflects on the rituals that sustain belonging.
What’s Form to Silence? Kurdish Poets on the Impossibility
Through close readings of Kurdish poets, a writer examines silence as a poetics of survival, love, refusal, and belonging.
Time Runs Blind in Rafiq Sabir’s Poetry
A translator describes her process of bringing a poet whose work is colored by tragedy, personal and collective, into English.
Exhibition Exile—a Profile of the Kurdish Exile Museum
Goran Candan founded the Kurdish Exile Museum to preserve an endangered heritage. Today, his life’s work is at risk.
Memory as Resistance: An Interview with Zeynep Esmeray
A self-described “memory carrier” has spent her life fighting for LGBTQI+, trans, and Kurdish rights, often through theatrical defiance.
Zehra Doğan, Kurdish Resistance Artist
Much of Doğan’s groundbreaking art was created in prison out of the materials at hand: hair, coffee, blood.
مقتطف من رواية مصنع السحاب لحامد عبد الصمد
في أحدث روايات حامد عبد الصمد، مصنع السحاب، يتحول مصنع لقطع غيار السيارات إلى مركز للقتل الرحيم، تسير الأمور وفقًا لترتيب دقيق، حتى يتغير كل شيء في النهاية.