4th International Conference of Kurdish Studies

co-organised by

The Kurdish Institute of Paris
University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr

in partnership with

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Centre for Peacebuilding and Dialogue

Reimagining Kurdistan

Identity, Politics, and Resistance in a Transforming Middle East

University of Kurdistan Hewlêr | Erbil, Kurdistan

22 - 23 April 2025

Nytimes.com | By Ekrem Imamoglu *

Early in the morning on March 19, dozens of armed police officers showed up at my door with a detention order. The scene resembled the capture of a terrorist, not of the elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city.

Nytimes.com | Eve Sampson

How a Network of Amateur Sleuths Helps Rescue Women Kidnapped by ISIS

No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their fates depend on a ragtag army of activists, relatives and armchair detectives.

Jpost.com |  By JONATHAN SPYER

Syrian Kurdish leader Ilham Ahmed says Israel must be part of the solution for Middle East security as tensions rise between the SDF and Islamist rulers in Damascus.

Kurdistan Chronicle

Nysun.com | Bernard-Henri LÉVY

We are in the new Great Game where five ‘kings’ — Iran, Russia, Communist China, Sunni Islamist states, and Turkey — take turns harassing the West.

The Kurdish Institute of Paris | Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Rudaw.net

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Last Pomegranate of the World, a novel by popular Kurdish novelist Bakhtyar Ali, has been selected among top 100 books of the 21st century by a Swiss newspaper.