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Gender and Feminism
Murder in the name of ‘honour’
Nask Saeed
The concept (or rather cultural practice) of so-called "honour killings" against women has its roots in…
Objectivity and Stereotypes
Zhiwar Jawhar
The society in which we live has been shaped by fairy tales and historical, mythical, and religious…
Kurdish Language and Sexism
Nabaz Samad
There is a strong relationship between thought and language. Spoken and written words are symbols for…
Feminist art presentation at a traditional tea house in Kurdistan
Rozhgar Mustafa is not only an artist, but a feminist and a conceptual artist, whose vision of the world is one in…
Houzan Mahmoud in an interview for Conatus News
Benedict Nicholson from Conatus News, is joined by Houzan Mahmoud to discuss Kurdistan, Syria, and Shariah
Houzan…
What are Masculinities?
By Bakhtiar Rasheed
Simone de Beauvoir in a distinguished sentence claims: “one is not born, but rather…
Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities
Jowan Mahmod
Ph.D. in Media and Communications
Online activities among Kurdish diasporas demonstrate that new…
Mosul And The Plight Of Women
Houzan Mahmoud
For the past two years since the taking over of Mosul by ISIS terrorists, people in the region have…
Kurds and Turks are at the edge of a cliff
Ayla Akat, women’s rights activist, has for many years sought a political solution to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict…
The Hassar and the Dogs of my Father
Zhiwar Jawhar
The Hassar and the Dogs of my Father is a well-known Kurdish novel by Sherzad Hassan, written in…
Rusty Razorblades and State of the Art Cameras: in search of human rights ‘for…
Dr. Sandra M. Phelps
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
Rusty Razorblades and State of…
Why has the Iranian women’s movement failed?
By Ava Homa
Since the 1910-era Constitutional Revolution, women in Iran have struggled to achieve gender equality,…
Why Culture Project?
By Houzan Mahmoud
I NEEDED to do this. After many years as an activist, it felt like it was finally the right time…
Kurdish Women As a Disciplined Body
By Shara Tahir
The main purpose of this article is to figure out the common discourse that…
How to make sense of feminist art in a culture where women’s voices are absent
By Kani Kamal
WHEN I studied art at university in Sulaymania 16 years ago, the course was based on an old…
The story of Malala: The Girl who stood up for equal right to education
The story of Malala: The Girl who stood up for equal right to education
By Lazo Azad
IT’S fair to say that the…