Last May, the Goethe-Institut, a non-profit German cultural association, invited a group of artists to Erbil to partic

Kurdistan Railways is a five-player strategy board game similar to Monopoly that was created by Alan Salah, a young Ku

In 1993, in the middle of all the chaos in Iraq, a Yezidi boy in primary school finds comfort in watching cartoons on

In his 2012 film Rhino Season, Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, known for war-time dramas A Time for Drunken Horses (

Ronya Othmann was born in Munich, Germany, in 1992 to a Yezidi father and a German mother. Currently a university stud

Award-winning writer and UK-based film director Kae Bahar, who was born in Kirkuk during the regime of Saddam Hussein,

In his studio on the outskirts of Erbil, master calligrapher Bjar Erbili is surrounded by the warm glow of creativity.

For the most part, the Kurds tend to garner the attention of the world only during major political events, such as the

"Stream To Ocean: The Poems of Nazand Begikhani," originally published by Richard McKane in Bells of Speech in 2006, e

With over one million Instagram followers, Sazan Hendrix is a well-known Kurdish-American author, entrepreneur, YouTub

Kurdish attire stands out as a distinctive feature of the nation’s cultural identity, showcasing unique symbols like t

The Zagros Mountain Trail (ZMT) is a 215-kilometer-long route that runs west to east though the mountains of the Kurdi

Dr. Aram Ghalali, a distinguished oncologist and biotechnologist at Harvard Medical School, was honored earlier this y

An exhibition in Erbil organized by the Consulate of Italy in Erbil showcased11 Italian archaeological excavations in