A Man Dies in me A Poem By Zhawen Shali Translated by: S J Fowler less cold now, as his limbs shrink, his icicle fingers slacken their grip, heat returns to my body. A woman passed, blue lipped Brr, shivers. But in this…

An Interview with Canadian Kurdish theatre director Rzgar Hama Rashed, conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen

By Khanda Hameed

By Nabaz Samad

A poem by Palina

A poem by Livyar

An Essay by Avan Omar

On the Sixteenth anniversary of his death By Nabaz Samad Masud Muhammad (1919 - 2002) was a Kurdish philosopher, thinker, linguist, and critic. He was born in a famous Kurdish family in Koya; his father was a prominent religious scholar who…

April 27 - 28, 2018 at New York University The Latin East: New Perspectives on Latin America-Middle East Ties An International Conference Please RSVP Here! At the height of Latin America’s “pink tide” in the mid-2000s, left wing…

An interview with Houzan Mahmoud, conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Interview with Sherko Abbas, artist from Iraqi Kurdistan, conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was early life like for you? Were arts and culture an important part of it? Sherko Abbas: I come from a family that…

This is part of a series of Interviews conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen for Culture Project with various Kurdish artists, feminists and writers. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did you grow up? Was religion a big part of life? How did you…

By Nabaz Samad Afrin is one of the Rojava's cantons, located on the Turkish-Syrian border. Afrin's population are mostly Kurds. Afrin is under attack by the Turkish state and its jihadist allies. Here’s a question: Why does Turkey attack…

An interview with Khanda Hammed By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Khanda Hameed is a Kurdish writer and Philosophy graduate.  Hameed has written for Culture Magazine. She is a coordinator of Culture Project in Kurdistan. Scott Douglas Jacobsen:…