ŞANLIURFA, Turkey — What gets a 40-year-old Italian comedy about a cosmetic surgery mishap banned from the stage? Performing the play in Kurdish in Turkey, a theater troupe discovered. Police raided a ...

The festival aims at performing works in Kurdish to play a vital role in strengthening the region’s cultural heritage and traditional rituals, ISNA quoted Hamidreza Khoshbakht, the secretary of the ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - The Fifth Slemani International Film Festival opened on Thursday with the theme “Kurdish Culture and Mother Tongue,” celebrating cinema as a bridge between Kurdish ...

And I'm Madeleine Brand. Three years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq has become a cultural magnet of sorts for Kurds around the world. Artists, writers, film ...