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End child marriage in Kurdistan & Iraq (video campaign)
A nine years old girl is taken from a playground to a bedroom with a man multiple times her age. How does she defend herself? October 31, 2017 Shia Iraqi deputies proposed to amend Iraq’s personal status law that legalizes child marriage …
Lecture series by Houzan Mahmoud on Feminist Resistance and Activism between Theory and Practice
The Global Center for Advanced Studies Research Institute Ireland Instructor: Houzan Mahmoud, Activist Course Description: This course is led by one of the world's leading public-intellectuals and activists for women…
Defending Progressivism Conference
On the 29th of April in the famed Conway Hall in London, a daylong -conference entitled Defending Progressivism took place, an unprecedented event organised by both Culture Project and Conatus News which saw a series of panel discussions…
Defending Progressivism conference in London
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,…
Houzan Mahmoud wins Emma Humphry’s Memorial Prize Award
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…
Book launch for Bakhtiyar Ali in London
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…
Recognition of Houzan Mahmoud and Culture Project’s campaigning for Secularism
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…
Houzan Mahmoud will be speaking at Women of the World Festival in Hull-UK
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…
Book launch and reception for renowned Kurdish novelist Bakhtiyar Ali
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…
Houzan Mahmoud & Culture Project are shortlisted for Secularist of the Year Award
Shortlist for Secularist of the Year prize announced The National Secular Society has announced the names of six candidates on the shortlist for the Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year. The award, which comes with a £5000 prize, kindly…
Reflection of Silence
Arts Canteen presents: Reflection of Silence An evening that will transport the audience into a unique musical realm, where the mournful tones of the Kamanchah and the ethereal strings of the Harp are joined by the earthy rhythms of the…
Culture Projects cofounder Houzan Mahmoud in various activities
Sulaymani 23-25th September 2016 On an invitation by Dabiran Platfomr a secular Organisation based in Kurdistan, Houzan Mahmoud gave a talk at the largest secular conference in the city of Sulaymania. The conference took three days, and…
Call for abstracts for the Kurdish Migration Conference 2017
Globalisation, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging June 15-16, 2017, Middlesex University, London, UK Call for abstracts – Deadline: March 1st, 2017 Conference Aims and Objectives Following the success of the first international Kurdish…
Call for papers: Gendering the Kurdish Diaspora
CfP Kurdish Migration Conference panel ‘Gendering the Kurdish Diaspora’, abstract (300 words) by the 1st March Gendering the Kurdish Diaspora Panel Convenor: Houzan Mahmoud The Kurdish diaspora is considered one of the largest stateless…
Culture Project’s female photography project in Duhok Cultural Café
In its efforts to break the normalisation of male dominated public spaces, Culture Project initiated another female photo project, this time in Duhok - a beautiful small town in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the afternoon of Tuesday 6th of December…
Culture Project’s Female photo project at the oldest traditional tea house in Kurdistan
Gendering public spaces On the 19th of September 2016, two of us - the cofounders of Culture Project: Houzan Mahmoud and Ismail Hamamin - visited Kurdistan to meet people and find a publishing house to get a deal for publishing our Culture…