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Sweden Kurdish magazine aims to promote Kurdish literature
Young people showcase musicial skills in Shingal
Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicks off in Berlin
Kurdish photographer showcasing kolbars wins World Press award
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This Rudaw documentary follows the story of 37-year-old Payzee Mahmoud, a Kurdish woman who was married off at a young age. After escaping the marriage through divorce, she became an active campaigner against child marriage. Her sister was also a victim of child marriage.
The documentary also features interviews with women's rights groups and delves deeply into the issue of child marriage in the UK.
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Rudaw Net
17-07-2025
- Rudaw Net
I don't want a celebration
- Also in Culture Sweden Kurdish magazine aims to promote Kurdish literature Young people showcase musicial skills in Shingal Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicks off in Berlin Kurdish photographer showcasing kolbars wins World Press award A+ A- This Rudaw documentary follows the story of 37-year-old Payzee Mahmoud, a Kurdish woman who was married off at a young age. After escaping the marriage through divorce, she became an active campaigner against child marriage. Her sister was also a victim of child marriage. The documentary also features interviews with women's rights groups and delves deeply into the issue of child marriage in the UK.
Rudaw Net
17-07-2025
- Rudaw Net
Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicks off in Berlin
Also in Culture I don't want a celebration Sweden Kurdish magazine aims to promote Kurdish literature Young people showcase musicial skills in Shingal Kurdish photographer showcasing kolbars wins World Press award A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicked off in Berlin on Friday, this year focused on the future of Kurds in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. 'The festival this year comes with the fall of Assad's regime, and we wanted to focus on this as it marks a new era in Syria and Rojava [northeast Syria],' festival director Maxim Issa told Rudaw's Diaspora program that aired on Friday. Over the festival weekend, Kurdish and German youth will engage in discussions, showcase their work, introduce their businesses, prepare traditional Kurdish cuisine, and perform traditional folk dances. Kurds from the diaspora and other ethnicities, including Arabs and Assyrians, are attending the festival this year, according to Issa. Gunay Darici, managing director of the education non-profit Yekmal Association, said events like this festival give Kurds a platform to express themselves without the restrictions that they would face in their home countries. 'In the diaspora, we can practice cultural and political work more effectively,' she said, noting that in Turkey's southeastern Kurdish areas, 'there is no freedom for associations.' The festival, titled 'Turning Point in Syria - A New Future for the Kurds,' will run through Monday. Germany is home to a large Kurdish diaspora community of at least 1.3 million, according to official government figures, making it the largest Kurdish community in Europe.
Rudaw Net
02-07-2025
- Rudaw Net
Legendary Kurdish singer's body returned to Diyarbakir after 29 years
Also in Turkey Erdogan vows action against magazine over alleged religious insult Turkey's Erdogan grants amnesty to ill Kurdish prisoner DEM Party pushes for parliamentary commission to shape PKK peace process DEM Party says Ankara-PKK peace process reached 'important' stage A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The body of renowned Kurdish singer Ayse San was returned to her hometown of Diyarbakir (Amed) in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, nearly three decades after her death from cancer and her burial in Izmir, the Diyarbakir municipality announced. In a statement, the municipality said that her body 'was welcomed by our co-mayors Serra Bucak and Dogan Hatun, [pro-Kurdish] DEM Party [Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party] parliamentarians, and her family,' adding that she was reburied in the city's Yanikoy Cemetery. A memorial program was also held in her honor. San, widely known as 'uncrowned queen' of Kurdish music, was born in 1938 in Diyarbakir and became a prominent cultural figure. Throughout her life, she lived in Diyarbakir, Istanbul, Baghdad, Germany, and Izmir. Due to a ban on the Kurdish language and the broader repression of Kurdish artists, which led her to move to Germany, Shan initially sang in Turkish on the radio. In 1963, facing financial hardship, she moved to Istanbul, where she began performing in both Kurdish and Turkish. She later released her first cassette in both languages. In 1979, she visited what is now Kurdistan Region, where she met several well-known Kurdish musicians, including Mohammed Arif Jaziri and Tahsin Taha. That same year, she performed under the name 'Ayse Sana Ali' on Kurdish Radio Baghdad, further strengthening her ties with the Kurdish music scene and expanding her audience across the region. Among her best-known songs are 'Ez Xezalim,' 'Qedere,' 'Dayke,' 'Le Le Be Mal,' and 'Lorke Lorke.' Her song 'Qedere' is a tribute to her 18-month-old daughter, who died in 1976.
