In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish artist has opened a music classroom for women in Mahabad, a western Iranian city with a ...

Women from Iraq's Yazidi minority get together to perform centuries-old sacred songs. They've survived captivity by ISIS and loved ones' deaths.... 'We Will Never Break': In Iraq, A Yazidi Women's ...

Russian Kurdish artist Zara releases new Kurdish song “Heval,” extending her acclaimed multilingual career and reinforcing her cultural influence.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tennessee is home to various traditions of different cultures, but some are at the risk of being lost. A statewide initiative by the Tennessee Arts Commission aims to preserve ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish renowned band Koma Amed held a musical concert in Stuttgart, Germany, on Saturday, with the proceeds from the concert dedicated to aiding the Yazidis in Shingal ...

Idol Kurdish music band of the 1990s announced their reunion and released a new acoustic version of an old song. The groom wearing a yellow, red, and green shawl during the wedding and guests singing ...

A Yazidi woman walks through the Khanke camp in northern Iraq in February. (Emily Garthwaite/INSTITUTE for NPR) DOHUK, Iraq — With rows of white tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in ...

DOHUK, Iraq — With rows of white tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in northern Iraq shelters about 14,000 men, women and children from the Yazidi religious minority. They have been ...

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