Assyrian International News Agency

Northern Syrian, Kurdish, and Assyrian Folk Traditions Unite At Damascus Opera House

The concert traveled through Syria's northern landscapes with songs rooted in village life, love, and memory. Highlights ...
JSTOR Daily

Culture, Politics and Contested Identity among the “Kurdish” Alevis of Dersim: The Case of the Munzur Culture and Nature Festival

This article analyzes the Munzur Culture and Nature Festival organized by the people of Dersim, an eastern province of Turkey, as a site of political activism, cultural reproduction, and intra-group ...
bianet

‘Traditional Kurdish Women’s Clothes’ book comes out

Nevin Reşan Güngör’s book “Traditional Kurdish Women’s Clothes” has been published in Turkish, Kurdish and English by Nûbihar Publishing. The Nûbihar Publishing House has released Nevin Reşan Güngör's ...
Salon

What’s in a name: Kurdish martyr Jîna Amini and the struggle for culture and history

“Life.” That’s what Jîna Amini’s name meant in Kurdish, her native language. But after her death at the hands of Iran’s “morality police” last month, the world began to know Jîna by what she ...
The Economist

Who are the Syrian Democratic Forces?

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkey’s president, has never warmed to his Syrian counterpart, to say the least. For the past decade he has armed militias bent on removing Bashar al-Assad from power. But on ...