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How Kurdish education neglects homegrown experiences of the peoples of Kurdistan

Two critical minds investigate the inherent challenges of the Kurdish educational system – why does it keep looking West? While language can be one of the main factors of unity among members of a socie...

Overwhelming Aspects of Teaching in Kurdish Culture

Aras Ahmed Mhamad

Teaching should go beyond giving advice. Teachers, as well as giving guidance, should provide a warm, encouraging, comfortable environment where humor, supportive feedback, lesson planning, regular meeting with...

Why Reading Novels is good and how they can Change our World

Aras Ahmed Mhamad

Why is Reading Novels good and how can they Change our World? An interview with Pishtiwan Faraj, PhD Candidate: Interviewed By Aras Ahmed Mhamad Part -1- 1. Aras Ahmed: What is your definition of the novel...

Live updates from the World Kurdish Congress 2013

Medya Editorial

We are updating you live from the World Kurdish Congress 2013 (WKC2013), all you have to do is to tune in to this post! ...

Have You Found Your Miracle?

Aras Ahmed Mhamad

Have You Found Your Miracle? A Personal Reflection and Tribute on the First Anniversary of My Graduation One of the most joyful moments in a person's life is their university years. We often remember it and la...

Investing in our Future: Students and Teachers Work Together

Aras Ahmed Mhamad

Investing in our Future: Students and Teachers Work Together; The common purpose of education is to guide students on to the straight path and help them to make a distinction between light and darkness, right a...

Youth empowering youth through education – part I

Hero Karimi

“Feeling oppressed is not solved by reinforcing negativity and fear. Education, positive actions and peace building are the answers.” Andree Murphy Growing up in western countries, today’s Kurdish youth have ha...

A Glimpse into the 2nd Annual Kurdistan Careers Fair

Aras Ahmed Mhamad

In the opening arena of the 2nd Annual Kurdistan Career on September 4, 2013, there was a huge wave of job seekers, estimated around 1000, marching towards the exhibition and the sponsors. Employers keenly expl...

On The Student, Teacher and Curriculum Triangle with Mahmood Kadir Ibrahim

Medya Editorial

Interview by Aras Ahmed Mhamad 1. AA: Student, teacher, and curriculum: How do you look at this triangle? Which one is more central to education? MK: Teachers and their curricula go hand in hand towards the s...

“The Proper Kurdish Girl”

Medya Editorial

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As a Kurdish girl, I am always fighting a battle between traditionalism and modernism, as if these two ideologies are dichotomies on opposite sides of a cultural spectrum. I am here to contest this illusion tha...

Bye Bye Bayan Xan

The new wave of Kurdish migration

The Consequences of Being an Independent Woman in Kurdish Society

How Kurdish education neglects homegrown experiences of the peoples of Kurdistan

The Dilemma of Kurdish Dark Tourism

The Purloined Identity

36 years of Immortality

Bleeding Wounds: Scars of a Peshmerga

16 reasons why you should never visit Kurdistan

A Few Days’ Life of Revolution in Halabja

The new wave of Kurdish migration

The story of three Kurdish women in my life

Zaxo, from memory

The Consequences of Being an Independent Woman in Kurdish Society

21 Faces of Newroz

Pomegranate Stained Skirts

Slemani In The Snow

Silêmanî Marches in Solidarity with Kobanê

Captures of a Return

Daily conversations

Sherko Bekas: Poetry is a continuous act of questioning and questions have no ending

You are what you eat. So eat healthy.

Plastic Surgery: Benefits and Risks

“A Kurdish Doctor can be as Good as any Doctor from Anywhere”

Harmonising Iraqi and Kurdish Healthcare Reform

Healthy advantages of breast-feeding for both infants and mother’s

Maternal and Reproductive Healthcare Failings in Kurdistan

“This is a man’s world, but it is nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl”

How Kurdish education neglects homegrown experiences of the peoples of Kurdistan

Overwhelming Aspects of Teaching in Kurdish Culture

Why Reading Novels is good and how they can Change our World

Live updates from the World Kurdish Congress 2013

Have You Found Your Miracle?

Investing in our Future: Students and Teachers Work Together

Youth empowering youth through education – part I

A Glimpse into the 2nd Annual Kurdistan Careers Fair

On The Student, Teacher and Curriculum Triangle with Mahmood Kadir Ibrahim

“The Proper Kurdish Girl”

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