Kurdish merchant Rashad Shalboosh reports a major shift from traditional Kurdish instruments like the Tanbur to Western ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - The second concert of this year's Zahawy Music House took place in Sulaimani province, featuring a fusion of Kurdish and Italian music. The concert in Sulaimani’s Tawar ...

We return once again to the vicissitudes of the Kurdish population, but these would be incomprehensible if we did not put them back into the more general question of the Middle East and the war waged ...

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 ...

A Kurdish visual artist, poet and musician, Farhad Bandesh, who has been detained in Manus Island’s offshore processing centre for nearly six years, has just released the new video clip for his latest ...

Eight Kurdish songs from Radio Yerevan, which has an archive of hundreds of Kurdish songs, have been interpreted anew in classical music and shared on digital platforms as part of a project entitled ...

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 ...

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

KIRKUK, Iraq—Sounds of a thumping drum and entrancing flute drew residents of this northern city to their balconies recently in hopes of glimpsing a wedding party that never materialized. The racket ...

Titled "Living Fire," the concert will take place at Tehran's Espinas Hall and feature a unique blend of Iranian and global music traditions, performed alongside a string and wind orchestra, Mehr ...

Many concerts, theater plays, and other events in Kurdish have been banned in the last three years. Artists and musicians have difficulties finding places to organize events. On November 7, 2021, ...

At first, no one in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil would drink the bitter coffee at Syrian refugee Abdussamad Abdulqadir's cafe. But now it's a hit, part of a growing cultural exchange. Since ...