Photos by: Ezzat Shafiq As 62-year-old Shafiq shares, the chemical attack on March 16, 1988, on Halabja was espe

Photo by: Mohammad Dargalayi For Andrew Billy, a 46-year-old craftsman from the U.S. state of Georgia, life took

Photo by: Peshraw Mahdi The Hawrami klash, a traditional Kurdish shoe, is more than mere traditional footwear.

Photo by: Mohammad Dargalayi “My grandfather, Haji Kakamin, built it in 1927. Back then, this was empty land. Bu

Photos from the Ephraim Speiser Collection, courtesy of the Penn Museum, digitized as part of the Sersal Project. Tak

Photo by: Mohammad Dargalayi Built between 1190 and 1232 AD during the rule of Muzaffar al-Din al-Kawkaboori, the min

Photo by: Nasih Ali Khayat Cultural and artistic festivals are more than mere occasions for joy; they are living expr

Photo by: Safin Hamid Iraqi Kurds hold a deep sense of pride in the Pishdar dog or Kurdish Mastiff, a remarkable bree

Each knot in a Kurdish carpet tells a silent story, tying generations of tradition to the land beneath our feet.

Before Enver Ozkahraman began taking photographs in the late 1960s, Turkish media knew little about the nature, people