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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…
Call for Abstracts: Gender, Violence and Displacement
Middle East Gender Forum, 7-8 April 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan Region, University of Sulaimani Recent wars, conflicts and human rights abuses have forced millions of people to flee their homes and move within or across boundaries. According…