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We cannot be liberated without a new alternative culture
This is part of a series of Interviews conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen for Culture Project with various Kurdish artists, feminists and writers. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did you grow up? Was religion a big part of life? How did you…
NGO’s cannot raise gender equality and body awareness among women
An interview with Khanda Hammed By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Khanda Hameed is a Kurdish writer and Philosophy graduate. Hameed has written for Culture Magazine. She is a coordinator of Culture Project in Kurdistan. Scott Douglas Jacobsen:…
Kurdish culture like any other cultures in the world is patriarchal
Scott Douglas Jacobsen's interview with Nabaz Samad Nabaz Samad is a writer and lecturer in Kurdistan. He is also on the editorial board of Culture Magazine, which is the print magazine, in Kurdish, of Culture Project. Scott Douglas…
Scott Jacobsen’s interview with Houzan Mahmoud
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How is religion used as a political and cultural tool to oppress, even deliberately humiliate, the Kurdish people? Houzan Mahmoud: Well, the problem is we all know the spread of most religions and especially Islam…
Iraq: Islam is not part of our genetic make-up
Interview with Houzan Mahmoud, by Andy Heintz Andy Heintz: What are your thoughts on what has been termed good Muslim-bad Muslim culture talk in the West? Do you feel this talk has omitted from the conversation the many secularists of a…
Interview with a Kurdish female Peshmarga
Interview with Roank Mahmud Conducted by Artist Avan Omar Q – As a woman, you do not enjoy equal rights with men in Kurdistan. Nevertheless, you have dedicated your life to the liberation of the country. How did you come to this decision?…
An Interview with Houzan Mahmoud — Co-Founder, Culture Project
Houzan Mahmoud is the Co-Founder of Culture Project. She is a women’s rights activist, campaigner, and defender, and a feminist. In this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, Mahmoud discusses the Kurds, Iraq, women’s rights, and more.…
An interview with Lanja Khawe one of the cofounders of Sofia Girls group.
Lanja Khawe is a lawyer, 23 years old, born in the City of Sulaymani, and is one of the cofounders of the girls-only group ‘Sofia’. In a special interview with Culture Project, Lanja Khawe speaks about her ideas, dreams, and obstacles that…
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 is a Kurdish women's rights and anti-war activist born in Iraqi Kurdistan. Houzan has led an international campaign against…
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 while defending the rights of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. She has been arrested. Interview. Ayla Akat, lawyer, former…