Azad Nanakeli: My art work is related to current events
Scott Douglas Jacobsen's interview with Artist Azad Nanakeli
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The Latin East: New Perspectives on Latin America-Middle East Ties
April 27 - 28, 2018 at New York University The Latin East: New Perspectives on Latin America-Middle East Ties An International Conference Please RSVP Here! At the height of Latin America’s “pink tide” in the mid-2000s, left wing…
I come from a family that is deeply engaged in both art and politics
Interview with Sherko Abbas, artist from Iraqi Kurdistan, conducted by Scott Douglas Jacobsen Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was early life like for you? Were arts and culture an important part of it? Sherko Abbas: I come from a family that…
Afrin Resistance: Afrinians have no friends but mountains
By Nabaz Samad Afrin is one of the Rojava's cantons, located on the Turkish-Syrian border. Afrin's population are mostly Kurds. Afrin is under attack by the Turkish state and its jihadist allies. Here’s a question: Why does Turkey attack…
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:…
Culture Project participated in 8 March city wide event in Sulaymania-Kurdistan
Culture Project’s activists took an active part in an event organised by (X-Line) organisation which was organised in the old Tobacco Factory which is now turned into a cultural venue. This event was organised for networking, and various…
Marking international Women’s Day with a seminar on Feminism & Gender
Culture Project in collaboration with Culture Project Society at University of Sulaymania in Kurdistan marked (8 March International Women’s Day) with a seminar on Feminism, Art and Gender. On the 7th of March a seminar was hosted at…
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…
The Shadow of ISIS
A review by Sarah Mills.
End child marriage in Kurdistan & Iraq (video campaign)
A nine years old girl is taken from a playground to a bedroom with a man multiple times her age. How does she defend herself? October 31, 2017 Shia Iraqi deputies proposed to amend Iraq’s personal status law that legalizes child marriage …
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?…
The Traveller
Poem By: Aso Jabar Gaze from the fate of an evening A breath at the shore of this dream is meaningless Where are the doors of the seasons? Where is the dream full of lusty stars?! Where is the seagull and the brimful whiny chest of…
Adonis ( Short story)
Newroz Sinjari Our brief encounters did not allow me to express my love for you properly. Perhaps they were not brief per se, but never as long as they should have been. The moments we created were too short, our kisses too brief,…
My Exile ( poem by Aso Jabar)
By: Aso Jabar My soul is brimful from a storm of a dream A sorrow of an Autumn will take me I turn to the rain and I will rain on a tryst of a garden Drop drop I will pour under the feet of an Autumn flower I will pass between…
Aynur: the sound of Kurdistan
By Sandy Buglass Originating from Turkey’s Kurdish community ( North Kurdistan), Aynur Doğan (known as Aynur) is a world-renowned singer and artist. Having received praise from both the Turkish and global press, Aynur is one of the most…
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.…