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

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 ...

Idol Kurdish music band of the 1990s announced their reunion and released a new acoustic version of an old song. The groom wearing a yellow, red, and green shawl during the wedding and guests singing ...

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 ...

It’s Saturday afternoon, and onstage at Powell Symphony Hall, 100 youth musicians rehearse for their upcoming November concert. Bass cases line the stage, and backpacks and other personal belongings ...

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

“Right now, the Kurdish freedom fighters — the peshmerga — are protecting the whole world.” Middle Eastern politics start to sound different when explained by pop sensation Helly Luv. Nicknamed the ...

SXSW‘s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some ...

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.

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, ...