“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King J

In the northern reaches of Duhok Governorate lies Zawita, a town surrounded by towering pine forests that locals refer t

In a humble house on the outskirts of Zakho, one small room has become an altar to the love of a football club. Its wall

For as long as Kadir Gur can remember, he has wanted to be a pilot. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he passed Turkish Airl

Hawraman, a mountainous area stretching between Southern Kurdistan (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and Eastern Kurdistan

Rastak, established in Iran in 1997, reinvents Iranian folk music by blending traditional regional melodies—from Kurdish

For most women, deciding what to wear is no easy task – not because they are picky, but because an outfit is more than j

In an age when the word “Kurd” is still uttered in the corridors of power as though it were a clerical error on the map

At the most recent Kurdistan Medical and Scientific Federation in the UK (KMSF-UK) conference held in London, a young te

In a historic event that feels more like the scene of a fantasy film, a group of warriors decided, following the death o

This essay is an excerpt from Bernd Lemke’s forthcoming monograph Deutsche und britische Orientreisende 1899-1914 (Germa

How an Australian aid worker ran the route many fled into Kurdistan in 2014 – and why the miles mattered.At the Kalak cr

High in the chill, misty hills of Penjwen, in the Kurdistan Region’s Sulaymaniyah Governorate, a single walnut tree burn

As daffodils blossom and the snowy peaks of Mount Zagros begin to melt, the moment signifies far more than a change of s