Artist of the week: Parastoo Ahovan
Parastoo Ahovan is from Kermanshah, a Kurdish city in western Iran. While I was interviewing her on...
[read full article]Commemorating the Genocide of the Barzanis
Tomorrow marks the 38th anniversary of the genocide of the Barzanis, in which thousands of men and...
[read full article]History and Politics: The Erbil Citadel
The Erbil Citadel Constructed more than 6,000 years ago, the Erbil Citadel is one the longest sites to have been continuously inhabited in the world. The Citadel, locally called Qelat, is a tell – an artificially constructed mound – rising about the plain at 98 ft. (30m). It features a peculiar fan-line pattern which dates to the late Ottoman phase of the city. The famous continuous tall wall...
[read full article]US is not withdrawing from Iraq: KRG Envoy
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The United States is not completely withdrawing from Iraq, said a Kurdistan Regional...
[read full article]Dutch gov’t signs deal with KRG to support development in agricultural sector
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Regional Government and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed a...
[read full article]Kurdistan Peshmerga forces receive roughly 70 vehicles from US-led Coalition
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Peshmerga on Monday received some 70 vehicles through the US Department of Defense (DoD)-funded Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program. Col. Jeffery Todd Burroughs, Deputy Director Military Advisor Group North, told Kurdistan 24 during the handover ceremony that the coalition was “divesting some vehicles and rolling stock in order to enhance the Peshmerga mobility, approximately four dozen Humvees,...
[read full article]Literature: Ahmad Khani, founder of Kurdish nationalism
Extract from Ahmad Khani's poem Mem and Zin, the national epic of Kurdistan. Ahmad Khani was a...
[read full article]Turkey slams Macron meeting with Rojava delegation
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkey has condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s Monday meeting with a high-level delegation...
[read full article]Syrian Kurds decry Turkish claims of mass grave in Afrin
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi on Friday called for an investigation...
[read full article]Artist of the week: Azad Nanakeli
Azad Nanakeli, originally from Erbil, is an international artist that has had numerous exhibitions since 1973. He works with visual arts, combining installation work, video, photography and painting. His work has been shown in various galleries around the world, from Iraq to Italy to the United Arab Emirates. He currently lives in Florence, Italy. For Azad Nanakeli, art a way of connecting the past to the present and...
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