Pomegranate Stained Skirts
A poem dedicated to Şingal and our stolen Kurdish Ezîdî girls.
Pomegranate Stained Skirts
Pomegranate stained skirts, ruby lined necks,
Ignored pulses, forced to endure on intruders beds.
Innocence stolen b...
Slemani In The Snow
This morning I woke up to find that overnight a thick blanket of snow had fallen across Slemani and its province. Without much thinking, I packed my camera bag and decided to explore my first ever encounter wit...
Silêmanî Marches in Solidarity with Kobanê
Photos by Aras Ahmed Mhamad
Photos by Aras Ahmed Mhamad...
Captures of a Return
37 years spent wandering, longing, and yearning. My father, who fought so passionately for his land, was forced to leave for the same reason, and to stay at an unbearable distance for 37 years. Lost all those w...
Daily conversations
I always enjoy talking to people to understand how their minds tick and what their desires are. I aim not to ask people questions but just have a conversation, where we both share a time of cleansing our minds ...
Sherko Bekas: Poetry is a continuous act of questioning and questions have no ending
Sherko Bekas was one of the most prominent poets in Kurdish history whose powerful poems was translated into more than ten languages. Son of the famous poet Fayaq Bekas, Sherko was born in May 1940 in the Kurdi...
A Peshmerga with a Pencil: Dr Osman Ahmed & the Anfal
Recently, the Kurdish peshmerga’s have been a beacon of hope and light in a region that is currently overflowing with darkness as more terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) seep into Iraq fr...
The mountains spoke
Hewraman, where south meets east,
shoulder-to-shoulder they become one.
Where enforced borders become invisible,
the mountaintops reach towards the sun.
The border post, a remote and yellow painted block of...
21 Faces of Newroz
On the 21st March, the people of Kurdistan welcomed the year 2714 and celebrated the first day of Spring, it is on this day that hundreds of thousands of Kurds take to various beautiful locations across Kurdist...
Gallery: 26th anniversary of ‘The Halabja chemical attack’
26th anniversary of 'The Halabja chemical attack', photos are from today's memorial in Halabja.
Photos: Aras Ahmed Mhamad...