A new generation of young Kurdish folklore collectors is helping to revitalize endangered languages and create a living archive, a new study shows. Stories and songs could be saved from oblivion ...

KIRKUK, Iraq—Sounds of a thumping drum and entrancing flute drew residents of this northern city to their balconies recently in hopes of glimpsing a wedding party that never materialized. The racket ...

The two-day festival will bring together rare sound archives, scholarly discussions, exhibitions, and experimental ...

Morî Publishing House, one of the few publishing houses that publish books on Kurdish children's literature, has recently been making remarkable efforts. Undertaking commendable initiatives for ...

Damascus, May 18 (SANA) A five-day Kurdish cultural festival concluded Sunday in Damascus with musical and folkloric performances highlighting Kurdish heritage as part of Syria’s broader cultural ...

Seven professors at Iran's Kermanshah University have been fired after a video of them performing a Kurdish folk dance at a graduation ceremony went viral, angering university officials. The video ...

SXSW‘s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some ...

Damascus, May 14 (SANA) A festival celebrating Kurdish culture and language opened in Damascus on Wednesday evening with a series of artistic and cultural events marking Kurdish Language Day. The ...

A Malatya court sentenced Kurdish folk musician Tunç to one month imprisonment on the grounds of his statement at a festival and postponed the pronouncement of judgement. The Court of Appeals had ...