In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tennessee is home to various traditions of different cultures, but some are at the risk of being lost. A statewide initiative by the Tennessee Arts Commission aims to preserve ...

Sufis use music as a means of getting to a trancelike state of ecstasy to achieve mystical revelation (vision). Similarly, music for the Kurdish faith group, Ahl-e Haqq, use the string instrument ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish artist has opened a music classroom for women in Mahabad, a western Iranian city with a ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish musician Gashtyar Kawa is carving out a distinctive sound by blending ...

A Kurdish–Dutch cultural festival held in Oosterhout on Dec. 21, 2025, introduced Dutch and international audiences to Kurdish music, fashion, food, and traditions, including Yalda, an ancient winter ...

A late March snow descends on a modest farmhouse in central Anatolia. An oil stove hisses away inside, as afternoon gives way to twilight. A heavyset man with a thick black mustache adjusts his cap, ...

Damascus, Dec. 10 (SANA) On the first anniversary of liberation, the Kurdish Ashti Music Group (Peace) presented a series of performances Tuesday evening at the Dummar Cultural Complex in Damascus.

The district governor said it had deemed the applicat,on for the concert "not appropriate," without providing further explanation.