Stories from the Kurdistan Region

A conversation with Winthrop Rodgers, whose article on efforts to preserve Yazidi oral storytelling was published in our Language issue.

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Saving Yazidi Song

In the face of genocide, displacement and technology, a new project hopes to preserve an oral storytelling tradition from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24 Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24

“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”

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Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.