Kurdish composer Karzan Mahmood on Thursday spoke to Rudaw about his nomination for a Hollywood Music in Media Award for his work in an Iranian film, describing it as deeply political and one that ...

EBRIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish music took center stage in Erbil on Thursday at a concert featuring performances from across the Kurdistan Region - Erbil, Sulaimani, Kirkuk, Garmian, Duhok, Halabja, ...

On his new album The End of the Middle, the cult singer explores a nation defined by loss and alcoholism, via Lake District ...

"We're preserving the coexistence and pluralism that was in Iraq," Benjamen said. Born and raised in Kirkuk, an oil-rich ...

HÜDA PAR, a prominent political party in Türkiye, has launched a series of events under the theme "I speak my language, I ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

New synthetic opioids (NSOs) are one of the fastest-growing groups of new psychoactive substances around the world ...

He has the faintest hint of an English accent. I want to call it transatlantic ... Margot laughs with him, but then she says, “Music!” and puts on some music. By assuming responsibility for my ...

The increasing availability of these and other synthetic drugs led the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to warn in August 2024 that “there has never been a more dangerous time to take [illegal] drugs” ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

The event features participants dancing to folk music. The Japan Kurdish Cultural Association organized the festival in 2018, 2019 and 2023. A Warabi-based group called Zainichi Kurdjinto Tomoni ...

By Xander Zellner Non-English-language music has a long history on Billboard’s charts. While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English ...