Were 'Devil Worshipper' Yazidis There for the Birth of Human Culture?

Michael Smith   /   2 сентября 2014 года

Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple

Michael Luongo   /   21 августа 2014 года

In the Valley of Lalish (Photography)

Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak   /   14 августа 2014 года

Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq?

Avi Asher-Schapiro   /   11 августа 2014 года

Who are the Yazidis and why is Isis hunting them?

Raya Jalabi   /   10 августа 2014 года

Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis?

Diana Darke Robert Leutheuser   /   7 августа 2014 года

Demonised and eternally misunderstood

Ulrich von Schwerin   /   11 июля 2014 года

Kurdish Singer in Italy Earning a Place in Birthplace of Opera

Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti   /   8 июня 2014 года

Pervin Chakar owes her opera career to a CD that changed her life: It was the voice of internationally renowned diva Maria Callas, and the moment Chakar heard her she knew what she wanted to do with her own life.

American Storyteller Helping Preserve Kurdish Tales

Amy Guttman   /   6 января 2014 года

In southeast Turkey, in some of Kurdistan's oldest villages, time-honored tales of warriors, heroes and princesses are at risk of being lost forever. Legends like the one about the Herculean Rostem-e-Zal have been around for centuries, but aren't widely known outside small communities.

Kurdish Heritage Reclaimed

Stephen Kinzer   /   31 мая 2010 года

In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the marriage celebration of 24-year-old Baris and his 21-year-old bride, Dilan, in the Kurdish heartland near the borders of Syria, Iran and Iraq. This is not the actual wedding; the civil and religious ceremonies were performed earlier in the week. Not until after this party, though, will the couple spend their first night together as husband and wife. It will be a short celebration by Kurdish standards—barely 36 hours.