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Ahmet Kaya: A Dream of Peace
On February 11, 1999, at the Magazine Journalists Association award ceremony in Turkey, the musician Ahmet Kaya proclaimed his intention to produce a song in Kurdish. For this, he was widely condemn
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Hoshyar Ali: Kurdistan’s Heroic Mine Clearer
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is distinguished by its rugged landscapes and a conflict-ridden history. However, a recurring menace looms large among these challenges: landmines, which are lefto
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Meet Ebrahim Karimi, a Kurdish Quantum Scientist
Ebrahim Karimi, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa who hails from Saqqez in Eastern Kurdistan (northwestern Iran), was recently awarded the Royal Society of Canada’
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Victory at World Championship Finale
The Spanish-Kurdish race driver Isaac Tutumlu finished first at the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Pro-Am Cup with the Rinaldi-run Ferrari 296 GT3 on October 2 in Barcelona, Spain, alo
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Honoring Barzani's Love for Chess
In September 2023 the Barzan area of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) hosted the second Barzani International Chess Championship, a testament to the enduring legacy of the game in this area. Chess
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Ahlame Hajji: A Beauty Queen’s View of Kurdistan
Ahlame Hajji has climbed to prominence in the world of beauty pageants, winning three coveted international titles: Miss Middle East 2011, Miss Asia 2016, and Miss Globe 2016. Yet, her story is not
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Lost Paintings of “Devil Man”
Aziz Salim (1917-2003)
In researching Aziz Salim I feel I have unearthed the life of an extraordinary artist. His narrative brims with vivid transformations, each chapter defined by a new city or c
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My Art is Always Very Personal
Born in the city of Bukan in the Kurdish part of Iran, Gita Kurdpoor moved to Minsk, Belarus with her family at the age of two. Six years later, she finally arrived in Berlin, just before the fall o
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The AI Revolution and Kurdistan
Back in 2017, when I started my master’s in data science at Bologna Business School in Italy, the hype was centered around data science. A few years earlier, Harvard Business Review had published an
