In Moorhead, Minnesota – a city nestled in the Red River Valley – many residents are well acquainted with Kurdistan and

Lajan almost never appears without her traditional Kurdish dress. Now in her seventies, she sees her outfit as an insepa

Back in the 1990s and the early 2000s, it was rare to hear of Kurdish students attending Harvard or other Ivy League uni

From the annals of British diplomacy in Erbil emerged a stage production that recounts a turning point in Kurdish histor

Kurdish women turn a symbol of dignity into an act of global defianceIt begins with a braid.In a grainy, widely shared v

The torches were raised. The procession wound up the mountain. Families gathered in anticipation, children looked upward

For Kurdish youth, whether in the homeland or abroad, identity is carried with pride. However, the modern political hist

“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