Submitted by Matt Green In the summer of 2017, I took a short-term position as a combat trauma instructor in Kurdistan through a British NGO and eventually became a nurse practitioner. As waves of Kurdish refugees fled from Daesh...
Real People, Real Stories
Op-Ed: Dictators aren’t built in a day
This article was originally posted in The Brussels Times on October 31, 2019. The last few weeks have witnessed a catastrophic geopolitical development in Rojava, Northeast Syria. On October 6, US President Donald Trump announced...
Welcome to Rania Bazaar
Contributed by Marilyn Gardner, a nurse and writer who had the privilege of living in Rania for ten months from 2018 to 2019. In that short time, she fell in love with the people of Kurdistan and plots every day how she might...
The Kurdish Professionals
Here at The Kurdish Project, we have had the distinct privilege of connecting with Dilman Yasin, Director of Community Outreach at The Kurdish Professionals. Dilman contributes to the organization’s mission of creating a global...
Richer by Kurdistan
Submitted by Marilyn Gardner “I miss Kurdistan.” I texted these words to my husband. He responded as I knew he would: “Me too.” For ten months we had the privilege of living in a small city in Kurdistan...
Taha’s Geometry Theory
In 1981, my oldest son was killed under Saddam’s Arabization of Kirkuk at the age of 12. In the years following, during the Arabization, Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of Barzani, Halapja, and Anfal people. In 1990, my...
Kurdish Art: An Interview with Lukman Ahmad
The Kurdish Project had the opportunity to interview Lukman Ahmad, a Kurdish artist who is using art as a weapon of peace and understanding. Learn more about how Lukman is raising awareness about Kurdish life and culture through...
Bringing Kurdish History & Culture to Light: An Interview with Mohammed A. Salih
The Kurdish Project had the opportunity to interview Mohammed A. Salih, doctoral student at UPenn’s Annenberg School for Communication and former freelance journalist covering the Islamic State as well as Kurdish and Iraqi...