The Competition of Unfinished Stories
“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”
Stories from the Kurdistan Region
A conversation with Winthrop Rodgers, whose article on efforts to preserve Yazidi oral storytelling was published in our Language issue.
Saving Yazidi Song
In the face of genocide, displacement and technology, a new project hopes to preserve an oral storytelling tradition from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
The Deserter
“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”
The Kurdish Ulysses
Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.
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