Druze militias trying to prevent pro-government Islamist Bedouin fighters from advancing toward Sweida, Walgha, Suwayda province, Syria, July 19, 2025....

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Barzanis Proved They Are Heavyweights in Iraqi Politics

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Hêmin Mukriyanî: Language, Memory, and the Incompleteness of Modernity in Kurdish Poetry

by Ali Ashouri

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Hemin Mukriyani (1921–1986), a leading Iranian Kurdish poet, journalist, translator, and literary critic, photographed in the 1970s-1980s. Photo: iKurd.net/with credit...