Medya Magazine

[...] executed, but Iraq has faced a lot of violence, political instability, and corruption. The Kurdistan region as a part of Iraq has achieved significant success in terms of security and economy, but it [...]

[...] (UNHCR), at the time of writing there were over 221,000 registered Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan region — mostly Syrian Kurds — and 948 others awaiting registration. Estimates for the IDP  [...]

[...] Following Jalal Talabani’s recent return to the Kurdistan region, there have been widespread celebrations amongst the Kurdish people albeit the majority [...]

[...] of 2013 twenty-three females were killed in Hawler. Erbil (Hawler), capital city of the Kurdistan Region, is most known for its generosity and hospitality, its calm nature and its eagerness to [...]

[...] 15 years. On the 21th of March each year, the first day of spring, starts the new year of the Kurdish people. This year would be 2714.  The legend of Newroz began with the story of the tyrant [...]

[...] and tragedies they inflict upon the public at large and the minorities in particular.” Kurdish people are known for their generosity and hospitality. Therefore, helping all refugees and displaced [...]

[...] for Kurdish women. The Kurdish struggle is unlike any other in that not only women but Kurdish people in general do not get a lot of Media coverage. Let alone when it comes to Women in history [...]

[...] are in a contract with Iraq simply because it suits the national security interests of the Kurdish people and once it stops doing that, they are willing to declare their independence. However, in [...]

[...] years later, here the world is, facing a reinforcement of these religious generalizations. The Islamic State however, puts an interesting spin on this idea.  Many IS members have been identified as [...]

[...] , and Syria and Armenia lost parts of their land to Turkey. Today, the Kurds and the Islamic State have put the final nail in the coffin of Sykes-Picot, the agreement that ignored the right of [...]

[...] in a region that is currently overflowing with darkness as more terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) seep into Iraq from Syria. The Kurdish peshmerga’s who were once [...]

[...] Iraq $17 billion in military aid and the majority of that went into the hands of the Islamic State or ISIS. President Barzani of the Kurdistan Region recently announced that parliament [...]

[...] a time where USA was providing assistance through airstrikes in South Kurdistan, the people of Rojava found themselves with no one to rely on but themselves. Nevertheless, [...]

[...] As I familiarize myself with everyday life in South Kurdistan, I come across a lot of people that wants their story to be told. It is true that most people [...]

[...] who has had plans to go to North Kurdistan for a long time, I can only share my experience in South Kurdistan. I have visited West and east Kurdistan in the past but I was a child and many things have [...]

[...] faith or political differences; a triumph for humanity that also supplies a greater voice for South Kurdistan’s determination for independence. A peshmerga is one who confronts death, not one who is [...]

[...] or friends in some cases would say “A comedian? You want to be a loty?” As a Kurdish society we often tend to want our kids to grow up to be doctors, lawyers and teachers, many other [...]

[...] to exist when Kurdish families water roots of hatred towards different religions of the Kurdish society: Jews, Christians, Alevis, Yezidis, Zoroastrians, Druze and Yazdanis. A Yazidi-Muslim [...]

[...] addresses their wound, wish and worry directly and can see in their daily associations. In Kurdish society, poems are still the highest points of the mountains and aren’t lowering. When cinema was [...]

[...] , we say “he has made himself a philosophy teacher’’. Mamosta has a huge role in Kurdish society; that is why we call scientists, artists, sports coaches, members of parliament, [...]

[...] they do not harm others against their will. Sadly, Iraq was governed by the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein who did not care for anyone else but himself. Kurds were being oppressed by the government in [...]

[...] be loss of civilian life if they had their way; while the antiwar side had to accept that Saddam Hussein, leader of the Baath party, whose Syrian founder, ‘originally Greek’ was heavily influenced [...]

[...] to let them be.  The Syrian regime and opposition have one goal, to replicate Saddam Hussein’s actions upon Kurds, claiming that they would grant Kurds their rights but using [...]

[...] their own independent sovereign state. Long a suppressed minority, the wars against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and 2003 resulted in the creation of a semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional [...]

[...] Islamic State? An inside look at the lives of refugees and internally displaced persons in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq’s Kurdistan region is thought to be hosting approximately 1.4 million internally [...]

[...] . Nevertheless, where are the plans to uproot them? What is important for the people of Iraqi Kurdistan, in particular, but also Kurds all over the world in general is to unite their public opinion [...]

[...] Iraqi people and IS’ claims to a caliphate, Goran Sabah Ghafour, a novelist from Iraqi Kurdistan and PhD/GTA journalism student at the University of Kansas, tells me that “Muslim” [...]

[...] this precise context reveals cultural codes, codes that are easily recognized by Kurdish students. If we do not know a man’s name or have forgotten his name, we just simply call [...]

[...] Kurdistan region. How do the people see the conflict and potential ways forward? I spoke to Kurdish students, academics and authors to learn more. Minorities, Despotism and Coexistence Jalal Hasan [...]

[...] full of killings and bombings, Maliki reacted to the shooting of a journalist by a Kurdish peshmerga in requesting a “blood for blood” retribution. Some people would identify [...]

[...] the Shiite to eliminate the IS threat. Moreover, Abadi must work on gaining the trust of Kurdish Peshmerga and Erbil if he is to win the war against IS, as Kurdistan shares a border with IS-held [...]