Early Kurdish Nationalism and Women’s Imagination
Azad Haji Aghaie
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Kurdish women
Women’s Self Writing Project
By Houzan Mahmoud 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…
Houzan Mahmoud wins Emma Humphry’s Memorial Prize Award
On the 6th of April in a ceremony hosted at the Garden Court Chambers, Houzan Mahmoud, co-founder of Culture Project, won the Emma Humphrey’s Memorial Award. The awarded is presented to an individual woman who has, through writing or…
Sahira Ismail gives artistic meaning to women’s domestic craft
On the 27th of August 2016 an exhibition by artist Sahira Ismail entitled ‘a house made of Rags’ was launched. Hosted at the museum of Sulaymania, the exhibition contained fourteen unique abstract works of art typically collage in form and…
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…
Kurdish Women As a Disciplined Body
By Shara Tahir The main purpose of this article is to figure out the common discourse that continuously claims the freedom of Kurdish women in different geographical areas in Kurdish society. An assumption being made and that has…