Students in Dêrik, Girkê Legê and Hasakah held protests against decisions concerning the teaching of the Kurdish language, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ILLUSTRATION - A Kurdish girl stands behind a Kurdish flag during a demonstration at Newroz Square in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, near ...

Students in the city of Qamishlo staged a protest against the decision to limit Kurdish language instruction in schools to ...

DIYARBAKIR — Years of Turkish state policies of assimilation have put the Kurdish language under threat. But now the government is allowing Kurdish classes as part of the government's policy to ease ...

Both in Syria and Iraq, there are rising reports of pushes for Arabic to become a main language and demographic changes in Kurdish areas, with officials needing to tackle these issues. Kurds in Syria ...

This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near 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 ...

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 ...

Call him a choirmaster of endangered dialects from distant lands, or a prophetic polyglot. If Kurmanci, the Kurdish dialect of a people with a heritage but no land of their own, has a messiah, he has ...

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 ...