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The First Kurdish Stand-Up Comedy Club: Tirş û Tehl
BARAN DESTAN/AMED The Saqo Collective was founded in 2022 by five young people dedicated to Kurdish comedy. That same year, the group—which launched under the name Tirş û…
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The dengbêj: voice of Kurdish oral culture
Singing epics, love stories and songs of parting from memory, the dengbêjs are among the oldest carriers of Kurdish memory.
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Govend: the dance of standing together
Danced hand in hand at weddings, holidays and Newroz celebrations, govend is one of the most visible shared rhythms of Kurdish culture.
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Hawar and the story of the Latin-script Kurdish alphabet
ê, î, û, ç, ş… The 31-letter alphabet we use to write Kurdish (Kurmanji) today goes back to the 1930s.