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Why do some Kurdish writers write in Arabic? Is this Kurdish or Arabic literature in this case? Or Arabic literature with a Kurdish spirit? Why did some Kurdish writers decide to write in Kurdish after they had written in Arabic? This is what some Kurdish writers answer us.
season is upon us! Three families live crammed in the one house, where they share the rooms, food and work. They even share the house’s costs, which have become reasons for sharp disputes whose echoes reach my own home. “We received mouneh jars and a meal of freshly cooked rice with soft and juicy fava beans during the first days of Ramadan,” my neighbor tells me. Authentic and much-loved Damascene dishes have become far-fetched dreams, given Syria's worsening economic situation. People are struggling with hunger and unreasonably high food prices, which have increased as the Syrian lir...
Is there such a thing as a 'Syrian audience'? 23 December 2020 Syrian journalist and trainer, PhD candidate in media. This is a conversation that took place in Amsterdam between Orwa Nyrabia—co-founder of Dox Box, Proaction Film and No Nation Films, and current artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA)—and Maya Abyad, a journalist, film director and colleague of Mr. Nyrabia. It is the most recent part of a longer discussion maturing between them over a longer period of time. The conversation was edited for flow. We’ve had discussions,...