Masoud Khalid News Today

Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitize historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing. Seen as the world's largest stateless people, the Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 million and 35 million mostly spread across modern-day Iraq,…

In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted and lost many of their historic documents.

Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitise historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing.Back in the van, equipped with two devices connected to a screen, the small team starts the hours-long scanning process before returning the books to the library.