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Tag: Kurdish culture

5 February, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

Hardi Kurda: Archiving the Sounds of Northern Iraq

Melissa Chemam profiles Iraqi Kurdish musician-composer Hardi Kurda and his projects Space 21 and Archive Khanah: Sounds from Iraq.

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15 June, 2022 • Hawra Al-Nadawi, Alice Guthrie

Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq and Iran.

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15 September, 2021 • Kobra Banehi, Jordan Elgrably

The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud.   The Prison Speakers Played Islamic Verses Kobra Banehi Kobra Banehi, also known… Continue reading The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

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20 December, 2020 • Selîm Temo

Academics, Signatories, and Putschists

Kurdish poet and scholar Selîm Temo, takes us inside the continuing Academics for Peace struggle through his personal story.

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