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Adorning Jewelry with a Touch of Kurdish Culture
Sayran Barzani, whose paternal grandfather was a peshmerga fighter who died during the First Iraqi-Kurdish War in the 1960s, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, yet speaks Kurdish fluently. Her pa
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‘Little Kurdistan’ in Napa Valley
Mehmet Siddik Torun, originally from Dersim (Tunceli), Turkiye, has built his own little Kurdish paradise in Northern California. Fleeing persecution in Turkiye in 1994, he and his family moved to E
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Kurdistan
The July issue of Kurdistan Chronicles, issue 16, featured a story about a mental health training project led by the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Center (OCTC), a part of Oxford University. This story r
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France and Kurdistan Unite for Women's Rights
On September 27, Vision Education and the French Research Center on Iraq (CFRI) hosted the conference “Iraqi Women: Between Compliance, Resilience, and Emancipation” at the French Senate in Paris.
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Halabja Girls’ Karate Club
Karate, a martial art that originated in Okinawa, Japan in the 17th century, emphasizes self-defense, discipline, and respect. It harnesses the body as a weapon, incorporating strikes, blocks, kicks
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A Novel Inspired by the Yezidi Genocide
Author Suzan Khairi, a Yezidi from Sinjar, was deeply affected by the genocide against the Yezidis perpetrated by ISIS in August 2014, during which thousands of Yezidis were killed, kidnapped, and d
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Flying Kurdistan Flag on Everest
On a sweltering August day in Kadikoy, a district of Istanbul, my university friend Abdulhalik introduced me to a remarkable individual. At first glance, I assumed he was a journalist or documentary
