The cynical smile of a solitary head
An essay by Ismail Hamalaw
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Ismail Hamalaw
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…
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…
Culture Project’s Female photo project at the oldest traditional tea house in Kurdistan
Gendering public spaces On the 19th of September 2016, two of us-the cofounders of Culture Project (Houzan Mahmoud and Ismail Hamalaw), visited the oldest tea house in the city of Sulaymani, called Shaab (which translates as Nation), in…
With My Wings
by Ismail Hamalaw 1 Telling stories from my childhood, or even from the moment of my birth, may seem to be a very classical way of beginning writing about myself. However, the story of my birth has several versions. In fact, storytellers…