For performance artist Livia Gazzolo, her heritage as a Kurdish American born in Evanston has shaped every aspect of her life ...

Googoosh’s love songs are both banned and beloved in her homeland. Her new memoir reveals a life as rich and painful as ...

Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

This Open Mic Night travels to Verochino Spazio Aperto and welcomes performances of poems, prose, stories, songs and more. This event’s theme is A Season in Hell, paying tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud ...

Film critic Meghachandra Kongbam has been appointed as a member of the FIPRESCI International Jury at the 12th Duhok International Film Festival 2025, scheduled to take place from December 9-16 in ...

In Eastern Kurdistan, Sardasht’s 11th Beyt and Heyran Festival concluded with 226 works from 20 provinces and contributions ...

Iraq is the second-biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which Trump has regularly ...

The United States has inaugurated a massive new consulate compound in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.

I'm throwing a Kurdish party in Central London on December 22nd—my very own celebration featuring DJ Krises, a stunning belly dance show by Samara, and a lively mix of Kurdish, Iranian, and Arabic ...

Shervin Hajipour, the Iranian Grammy Award winner whose hit song became the anthem of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, has ...

In northeastern Syria, a growing community of artists—dancers, musicians, filmmakers—fights to preserve the region’s diverse ...