The archive's contents range from religious and grammar books from the 1770s and Ottoman-period decrees appointing local officials, to property deeds, old Kurdish folk stories named after 16th ...

The Ankara-based broadcasting watchdog filed 11 petitions to take Baybasin’s Diyarbakir-based ART news channel off the air since its launch in 1997 because the channel had broadcast Kurdish ...

A Hull duo has produced an animated folk tale. The directors, Havi Ibrahim and Stuart Palmer adapted a famous Kurdish folk story; The Legend of Kawa the Blacksmith. The story tells of a brave ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A group of Kurdish musicians and vocalists from northeastern Iran are keeping hundreds of years’ worth of oral history alive through traditional music and poetry ...

Pervin is also working to bring opera and Kurdish folk music together. In an interview with VOA Kurdish in 2015, she noted common features between traditional Kurdish music and opera.

TEHRAN- The Nasl-e Khalil ensemble, a Kurdish tanbur group, is scheduled to perform at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on October 6. Under the direction of vocalist Hajhir Mehrafrouz, the ensemble will present a ...

Dohuk, Iraq — Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitize historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing.