By: Aso Jabar My soul is brimful from a storm of a dream A sorrow of an Autumn will take me I turn to the rain and I will rain on a tryst of a garden Drop drop I will pour under the feet of an Autumn flower I will pass between…

By Sandy Buglass Originating from Turkey’s Kurdish community ( North Kurdistan), Aynur Doğan (known as Aynur) is a world-renowned singer and artist. Having received praise from both the Turkish and global press, Aynur is one of the most…

Houzan Mahmoud is the Co-Founder of Culture Project. She is a women’s rights activist, campaigner, and defender, and a feminist. In this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, Mahmoud discusses the Kurds, Iraq, women’s rights, and more.…

I will go to place faraway Where nobody there knows me A place Where the streets be peculiar No house, No room No bed No mobile phone No internet Until no gravel of inconsistent speeches Replays the events of my lost years. I…

Nawroz Sinjari I was not able to remove my gaze from the painting. I was staring at it for a long time, letting my soul be soaked by and lost in the colours and the shapes. My hands passed over the canvas gently, a movement in…

In my artwork I use Kurdish poems, because Kurdish poetry has been both a motive and inspiration for me in how I deal with despair and nostalgia.

Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K was born in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) in 1975. His early studies focussed on European literature and philosophy, learnt from available books translated into Arabic. Emigrating to Germany 20 years ago, Hiwa K…

Culture Project & Conatus News and sponsored by the National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association) Defending Progressivism is an unprecedented day-long conference focussing on defending social-progressivism (LGBT Rights,…

On the 6th of April in a ceremony hosted at the Garden Court Chambers, Houzan Mahmoud, co-founder of Culture Project, won the Emma Humphrey’s Memorial Award. The awarded is presented to an individual woman who has, through writing or…

It is an artist’s responsibility to expose and unveil hidden truths. The artist must comment on, criticise, raise questions and above all, take risks that challenge norms, deconstruct societal structures, and ignite debates. These are…

In the evening of 12th of March 2017, Culture Project and Periscope Books co-hosted an event to launch the first ever Kurdish novel translated into and published in English. The event was hosted in Hampstead’s elegant Burgh House, packed…

By Zhawen Shali The girls of my village Were sizzling the sunflower seeds Because of the disappearance of the sun They were taking empty pots to the spring water And narrating the decisiveness of water to the water And used to get…

Following nominations from members and supporters, the elected council of the National Secular Society selected six people on a shortlist for the Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year. The National secular society is an organisation with…

Panel Discussion: The struggle for gender equality stretches right across the globe. Saturday 11th March at 2.30pm HULL CITY HALL Queen Victoria Square Hull HU1 3RQ Join Kurdish Women’s Rights Activist Houzan Mahmoud, writer and broadcaster…

Periscope Books and Kurdish Culture Project are pleased to invite you to an evening honouring Bakhtiyar Ali, the foremost Kurdish novelist whose epic I Stared at the Night of the City was published in the autumn. The first major work of…