Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few ...

Kurdish communities mark Kurdish Language Day, honoring the 1932 launch of Hawar magazine in Damascus by Celadet Ali Bedirxan ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is ...

Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they ...

Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation. The course focuses not only on the ...

Dalal M. Hassane ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Leverett House. Just months ago, I felt the breeze of the motherland hold me so tightly I could almost sense my Kurdish ancestors offering me ...

Lawyers and activists in Hasakah, Western Kurdistan, staged a sit-in against the removal of Kurdish from Palace of Justice ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Expatriate students at the International School of Choueifat in the Kurdistan Region’s eastern city ...

This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near the ...

"The Language Wound: The use of the mother tongue in education and experiences of Kurdish students", a study from the Political and Social Research Institute of Diyarybakır, suggests bilingual and ...

"Let us keep Kurdish alive not just in songs, but at home, on the street, and in every area of life. Kurdish must be the ...

Few peoples in the Middle East have been portrayed as a threat as often as the Kurds. For some, they are separatists. For ...