Selva Ibrahim dreams of a Nashville where a Kurdish grandfather can walk into the public library and check out a book to read to his grandchildren in his native language. As a circulation assistant at ...

Mehmed Uzun, a Kurdish novelist who was prosecuted for criticizing Turkey’s ban on the Kurdish language, died Thursday at a hospital in Diyarbakir, Turkey, after a battle against stomach cancer, his ...

Those who are familiar with the socio-cultural and political situation of Turkey's Kurds might think that the title of this article is either a rhetorical or a nonsense question. Given the lack of ...

"The texts of a 41-year-old writer always win against what is written by a 10-year-old girl." In Turkey as part of the Belongings project, which offers a platform for Kurdish and Sámi writers to meet ...

(BIANET/IFEX) – The Istanbul First Criminal Court of Peace has sentenced publisher Mehdi Tanrikulu of Tevn Publications to five months’ imprisonment because he wrote a petition in Kurdish complaining ...

This post first appeared on IranVoices.org and is translated into English and published here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Iran's University of Kurdistan has opened a new department of ...

“My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq,” by Ariel Sabar (Algonquin Books). There are no more Jews in Zakho. Once the center of Jewish activity in Kurdish Iraq, the ...

The Turkish government recently lifted a decades-old ban on speaking Kurdish in schools, but a young Kurdish girl fighting for full rights says they still have a long way to go. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- ...

Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) chant slogans during an attempted march in Istanbul that was dispersed by police, October 30, 2016. (AP Photo / Emrah Gurel) By signing up ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - From translating Kurdish poetry into Finnish to raising trilingual children ...

This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near the ...