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British man, daughter embrace Kurdish culture, language in Duhok

The following article was originally published in Rudaw. View the full video here.

Jeremy Fowler first experienced Kurdish culture while at university in his homeland of Britain.

“When I was at Oxford in the UK, I had Kurdish friends and I heard a lot regarding the condition of Kurds and I pitied them regarding the condition of the Kurdish language. I found that I love languages and I could help them. Kurdish is a very nice language but we have to work together,” he told Rudaw.

Fowler has learned Kurdish for 10 years, but over the past eight months he has studied on a daily basis.

He now lives and works in Duhok at Form Foundation and has begun to write an online Kurmanji dictionary for people who want to learn the most-spoken Kurdish dialect.

Fowler’s family has even enrolled their daughter at a local Kurdish school.

“It is an honor to have a student coming from Britain and study Kurdish while most of our people want to learn English,” the principal of Zagros School, Zirak Mohammed, told Rudaw.


This article was originally published in Rudaw.

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