Cultural Beliefs About Water in Kurdish Culture - Part 1

Belief It is believed that water especially rivers and springs’ water have owners so if one goes to the river at night they will be haunted by evil spirits. The owner of the water wears ...

Two Thousand Stones Were Taken Out of a Kurdish Woman’s Bile

Kurdshop_ In Sert City in the North part of Kurdistan a Kurdish woman was diagnosed with bile stone 20 years ago but due to her fear of surgery she never underwent the operation. A 50-year-old lady n...

Unemployment in the Kurdistan Region

Unemployment is one of the undesirable phenomena that individuals in society face and in our time it is one of the main problems of all societies.  Unemployment means when individuals in a ...

An Artist from Dersim Paints his Artworks on Stone and Wood

 Kurdshop- Designer and artist Murad Ozan, who lives in Dersim, North part of Kurdistan, paints and creates works of art with pieces of stone and wood he collects in the Munzur and Pulumur valle...

Chawgi Rishen, a River Flowing from the Center of a Mountain

Rishen village is one of the most beautiful villages in the South part of Kurdistan. Due to the presence of a spring in this village that flows like a river from the heart of a mountain, it has an at...

Baxtiyar Ali, a Man Searching for the Last Pomegranate in the World

Baxtiyar Ali was born in 1960 in Suleimani. He completed his primary education at Sheikh Salam School in the same city. He later studied at Azmar Center Middle School and graduated from Halkawt High ...

Two New Books by Halim Yousef have been Published

Kurdshop- Two new books by Halim Yousef have been published by Paywand Press. One of these books, “The Fire That Burned Our House, “consists of writings and articles by Halim Yousef....

A Kurdish artist has Won a Gold Medal at the China Kite Festival

Kurdshop – Kite maker Zahid Mungan from Mardin, North part of Kurdistan, has won a gold medal for making a three-dimensional peacock kite and participated in a festival in China. Zahid Mun...

Joulamerg Rugs Decorate American Houses

Kurdshop_ The rugs made by the women in Joulamerg decorate the American houses. These well-designed rugs in the “Ishgem” workshop (which is built by the General Education professors in Jo...

The Need for Schools and the Education System by Dr. Mustafa Shawqi Qazizadeh - Part 2

Read part 1 here: The Need for Schools and the Education System by Dr. Mustafa Shawqi Qazizadeh – Part 1 (kurdshop.net) In this letter, Qazizadeh unveils several things. First, ...

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