RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in…

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Can the Purslane Speak?

Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has…

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The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote

One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition…

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The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )

The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish…

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RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in…

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Can the Purslane Speak?

Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has…

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The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote

One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition…

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The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )

The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish…

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A Mullah, Witness of Two Eras

In the 19th century, when the Kurdish principalities were dismantled, the Kurds lost their rule…

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RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in its global campaign against censorship and threats to media independence. Through targeted actions in Switzerland,…

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Can the Purslane Speak?

Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has stood at the centre of colonial studies. As a literary critic, Said directed his attention…

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The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote

One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition sat on the classroom shelf. Its cover fascinated me: Don Quixote standing before the windmills,…

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The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )

The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish books in an iron box and buried it in the garden of their village house,…

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What are the favourite foods of Kurdish women?

A few days ago, one of my friends was looking at the results of our survey. After a few slides, he turned to me and said: "Why did you ask…

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Quickfire Dialogue with Murad Demir

If you write a letter to God, what would you say? Can you revive some people please?  Who is the person that you love most?  Father is our back like…

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From the Medrese to the Modern Era: A Journey with Bozarslan’s Work – Martin van Bruinessen

Kurdish intellectual Mehmed Emin Bozarslan passed away, but he left an important and lasting legacy of significant books and translations. He was one of my idols when I became interested…

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Quickfire Dialogue with Sayîme Xakpûr

If you write a letter to God, what would you say? I have so many complaints to God, especially I would complain about why God is silent against the situation…

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