We are Kurds
We are Kurds
The challenge becomes explaining you with a language that encompasses your love.
We grew from your roots, stems across the land that have become petals of your ancestry.
We have woven ourselves int...
I am nameless/Ez bê navim
I am nameless/Ez bê navim
I am the last Emperor of the Ayyubid dynasty.
I am the shadow of greatness, the companion of resistance.
With my sword I fought tyrants and kings of the near East and the West.
But I a...
We are Kurds and you are Kurdistan/Em Kurden û tu Kurdistanî
We are Kurds and you are Kurdistan/Em Kurden û tu Kurdistanî
The challenge becomes explaining with a language that encompasses your love.
We grew from your roots, stems across the land that have become petals o...
Echoes of my mother
Memories of my elementary school days consisted of a reoccurring theme: role models. Teachers would always ask, “Who is your role model?” At the tender age of 10, the concept of role models and mentors was alie...
Newroz in lyrics: The legacy of Kawa revived in Eyaz Zaxoyî
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaObmR8iKg
Daily the serpents would throttle him so abusively that death became a prayer. He would moan and yell with his echoes reaching the top-most peaks. He offered rewards ...
Genocide and Lyrics: Music after death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xIgLja3pU
To survive we write, we record, we capture and disseminate, we transcribe and translate. Survival comes not just with a second chance at life, but it comes in the for...
The Four
Every day the Four would rise with the glowing sun that brightened their mornings with its light. The four children lived happily and free with their mother, who had been left to raise them on her own with the ...
Dengî Kurdistan-The voice of Kurdistan: Şerko Bêkes, a short tribute
The foundation of the modern Kurdish identity is stitched together by the poetry of bleeding hearts. We, as a suffering nation have been kept alive by our unyielding desire for freedom and universal equality. I...
Em kî ne? Kî ne em? Who are we?: Themes and symbols used in Cigerxwîn’s poem “Kî ne em?”
A question that floats in the minds of those who are foreign to the Kurdish people and their tribal homeland is “who are they?”. The question of who we are and what we are has been the subject of great literatu...
“Bêrîvanê, Kurdistanê, kulîlka evê cîhanê”: A brief lyrical analysis of Tehsin Taha’s Bêrîvanê
We’re in 1961; Mustafa Barzani and company have unleashed an armed resistance against the Iraqi leadership. Kurdistan – as she always is – has come under attack. With many-a-failed attempts to secure autonomy f...