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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Mullah, Witness of Two Eras
In the 19th century, when the Kurdish principalities were dismantled, the Kurds lost their rule in the cities. This loss of authority in the cities […]