Profiles

By Sandy Buglass Originating from Turkey’s Kurdish community ( North Kurdistan), Aynur Doğan (known as Aynur) is…

Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K was born in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) in 1975. His early studies focussed on European…

15th of January 2017 was not an ordinary day in the city of Sulaymania, Iraqi Kurdistan. This day was special…

by Ismail Hamalaw 1 Telling stories from my childhood, or even from the moment of my birth, may seem to be a very…

By Houzan Mahmoud I NEEDED to do this. After many years as an activist, it felt like it was finally the right time…

I am Baran           By Baran July 2016 This is the first time I have ever written about myself. It feels…

Karwan Omar Karwan Omar, a Kurdish pedagogic dancer, and choreographer and the director of a dance company, was…

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF FEMINIST ART IN A CULTURE WHERE WOMEN’S VOICES ARE ABSENT. By Kani Kamal WHEN I studied…

Profile: Bayan Salman, Bayan Salman was born in South Kurdistan but lives and works in Paris. She is also a…

Profile: Khabat Abas,  My journey into music started when my father wrote a story for me called My Cello’s Golden…