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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…
Public Seminar on Secularism, Freedom of women and LGBTQ rights
UCLU Kurdish Society and Culture Project Present: An evening of discussion with activists and experts debating women and LGBTQ rights under Islam. They will be debating why they are struggling for a just, secular and egalitarian world. In…
Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and access to Justice
Culture Project, The Centre for Kurdish Progress, Law for All, Centre for Secular Space, Southhall Black Sisters, Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and British Muslims for Secular Democracy organised a public forum on 7…
Report from the seminar on Sharia Councils hosted at the UK Parliament
The Culture Project in cooperation with the Centre for Kurdish Progress, One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space, Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and Muslims for Secular Democracy organised a…
Public Seminar at UK Parliament on Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice
Date: 7 November 2016 Time: 7-9 pm Venue: Committee Room 9 House of Commons, Westminster London SW1A 0AA Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice is hosted by several organisations and activists to debate and express their concerns…
Beyond the Mirror
Statement By Shillan Jabbar Painting is meditation before it is art. Through painting, I make a spiritual connection with my inner soul and nature. This kind of meditation gives a feeling that we are all connected with our happiness,…
Sharia Courts in UK and feminist mobilisation against them
Public Seminar for Houzan Mahmoud one of the co-founders of Culture Project DATE AND TIME Sat 15 October 2016 19:00 – 21:30 Organised by Radfem Collective DESCRIPTION Sharia is the Islamic legal system, Originated from the Koran and the…