Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection ...

European Union Ambassador to Iraq, Thomas Seiler, has voiced concern that the formation of the Kurdistan Region’s new ...

In Desolation, inexplicable elements, often in the form of coincidence, disrupt and distort causal chains. Dreams and ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for ...

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has talked to NPR about the importance of stories in a time of war. Keret tells Scott Detrow why he recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about the need for a ...

Twenty-five titles — including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy — have been banned in Kashmir. The crackdown has ...

Nothing could make the obsequious spectacle earlier this month in Alaska more shocking, but while President Donald Trump was waiting on the red carpet, clapping for an international killer, I was ...

Sensationalism, however wrong, gets attention.

Gérard Chaliand, the French researcher, writer, and strategist whose career spanned more than six decades, passed away on Wednesday, in the French capital Paris at the age of 91. His scholarly work ...

In a final flurry of murderous engineering, Iranian scientists at the Semnan Missile Site north of Tehran were trying to ...