Kurdishness: A Matter of Existence and Non-Existence

Nurcan Baysal on Kurdish language, culture and identity. Translated by Nazım Dikbas.

—Essays

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Hope in a Bottle of Honey

Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.

—Essays

5 min read

A literature in search of its language

Ciwanmerd Kulek charts the ongoing struggle for the Kurdish language, and whether being a language that is now more written than spoken threatens it in new and troubling ways

—Archive

7 min read