Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation. The course focuses not only on the ...

In the heat of the day, groups of Syrian refugee students walk purposefully to the learning centre in Domiz refugee camp. Here, they are studying the local Kurdish dialects in preparation for the new ...

Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few languages embody this reality more clearly than Kurdish, a language spoken ...

Dalal M. Hassane ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Leverett House. Just months ago, I felt the breeze of the motherland hold me so tightly I could almost sense my Kurdish ancestors offering me ...

AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...

Denial and assimilation continue to be the basis of the policies pursued regarding the Kurdish language since the foundation of the Republic. The Republic [of Türkiye] pursued a policy to create a new ...

According to a new survey, the speaking of the Kurdish language decreases in the houses with children. Families do not prefer to speak in their mother tongue because they don’t want their children to ...