The Suicidal Truth
This article was originally written for and published by Awat Newspaper.
The incidence of suicide in Kurdistan has been significantly increasing, especially in females and youth, over the last few years to a po...
A Cancerous Kurdistan
Cancer covers a wide range of diseases, all which involve unregulated cell growth. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and a disease which is of gradual increase all over the world. It also happens to ...
“Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby”
This article was originally written for and published by Awat Newspaper.
In my previous article about the dangers of a potential HIV epidemic in South Kurdistan I spoke about the use of prevention, of such di...
Potential HIV Epidemic Swept Under the Rug
Although regular reports on regional statistics in South Kurdistan are almost non-existent, there are reports which claim that the number of people infected with HIV have increased from 2 to 107 in the past few...
Unity Video
When I was brain-storming ways in which I would approach the Kurdish youth community here in Adelaide to inspire and motivate the youth to get involved in establishing a youth group, I was completely at loss. F...
My Prisoner
Today in Turkey there are over 10,000 political prisoners. The news in Turkey is flooded with hundreds more being arrested from day to day based on innate chargers and anonymous witness accounts. It seems as th...
Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
23 years ago today, on the 13 July 1989, a legendary Kurdish leader, to many Kurds and associates, was assassinated by the Islamic republic of Iran. The killing did not occur on Iranian soil, the killing occurr...
Kurdistan’s Unsung Heroes
The history of Kurdish women has sadly been an invisible one — not because people don’t want to know about Kurdish women, but because they don’t know where to learn about Kurdish women. It’s hard to know about ...
One Rainy Day
As I sit on this crowded bus, packed with office workers in suits and university students eager to get home in the traffic rush hour, my mind ponders as I look out the window. Fogged up from the over-crowding, ...
Never Forget Halabja
On March 16 1988, I wasn´t even in this world. My parents hadn´t even met yet for there to a potential me in this world... but while millions of babies, children and later adults had not yet been born, in a tow...