Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few ...

The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...

The students posted a banner reading, "Language is life - education in the mother language is a right". In a symbolic lesson, student Erdal Beşer taught the Kurdish alphabet that includes the letters ...