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Rudaw Net
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- 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
- Entertainment
- 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.
NBC News
19-04-2025
- General
- NBC News
Boy who lost both arms in Israeli strike is being fit for prosthetics in Doha
Mahmoud Ajjour became the face of Palestinian children's suffering in the Israel-Hamas war when a photo of him won the World Press award. Videos sent to NBC News show Ajjour adjusting to life after he lost both of his arms in an Israeli airstrike in December 2023.
