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Visual representation of bodies
An Essay by Avan Omar
International Women’s Day, The critical look of an artist at concealment
Regina Tauschek He breaks taboos with his works. Reflecting on the puritanical interpretation of Islam and traditions, he sensitively grabs the male world by the crotch and therefore lives dangerously. The artist wishes women the…
Women’s Self Writing Project
This is a new initiative of Culture Project is intended to work on women’s power to tell their own stories or stories of other women through writing. The women of Kurdistan, and their dreams, encounters and experiences with patriarchy,…
Olive Branch Performance Art
By: Diyako Khatun & Janeh Aras Materials: Fabric, Acrilic and olive branches. A work of Art to Support Afrin resistanse against Turkish random bombing and attacks. A word from us as artists, humans and Kurds to say: We can change and…
The Shadow of ISIS
A review by Sarah Mills.
A prostitute’s Necklace, poem by Sherko Bekas
A prostitute's Necklace on the public street lifted her dress and cried out "I only sell my own body, just my own and nothing else, but on the street I see them; they have sold the body of the mountain, the body of the plains and the…
This story is piercing
By Hawar Moradi and Fazil Moradi It moves through my whole being, and keeps me worryingly wide-awake. It has inhabited my body for a long time, traveling along the walls, and rivers. From one home to the omnipresent seas, and…
Women and Literature: A Feminist Reading of Kurdish Women’s Poetry
Abstract of a new book recently published by Dr. Saman Salah Balaky This research is a detailed feminist reading of the poetry of a select group of female Kurdish poets whose work was written in Sorani Kurdish. The poets come from…
Bottom of the sea
By Hawar Moradi Nowadays when I am walking by the sea, I keep looking at the sun, That keeps staring back at me. I see the giant waves coming towards me I see how they calm down and become smaller, to finally…
Things Fall Apart As Post-Colonial Counter-Discourse To English Canonical Literature
Bakhtiar Rasheed Part Two In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe subverts the stereotype depicting the indigenous African population as irrational, frenzied people who should be civilized by the Western Enlightenment and European…
Portraits
By Hasan Falah For a long time, I strived to understand the pain of displacement. I wanted to create hate and love. I wanted to face the displacement in me, but it was hard. My soul was wounded from moving away from my childhood city, but…
Things Fall Apart as post-colonial counter-discourse to English canonical literature
Bakhtiar Rasheed Part one Colonization created the chance for Europeans to encounter and create their own “Other”. Due to the colonization process, indigenous peoples across Africa were subjected to the laws and customs of the European…
Mirza Ghalib Versus Emily Dickinson
Mirza Ghalib Versus Emily Dickinson The Attitudes Toward Love By Zhiwar Jawhar There is a well-established argument: arts come from ideas about life. The material embodiment of life goads us to form our concepts of such corporeality.…
Jwamer Dishad’s Women
by Sarah Mills It is with a macabre surrealism that Kurdish artist Jwamer Dishad depicts his women. Contemplating the feminine subjects of his artwork, the viewer is inevitably led to recall the twofold struggle for independence that…
Documenting Anfal (Kurdish Genocide) in Osman Ahmed’s Artworks
By Nabaz Samad Saddam Hussein's regime attempted to solve the Kurdish question once and for all in the 1988 )Anfal( Campaign, a final solution aimed at the Kurdish people. The campaign targeted Kurdish rural areas in an operation of…
Performing through portrait
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story,” By Avan Omar The statement above was made by Chimamanda Ngozi…