By the Dilan Dance Company: Dilan Dance Company is pleased to announce the performance of its latest production, The Legend of Newroz/Dance of Colours. The work is based on the Kurdish legend of the New Year signifying new beginnings that coincide with the vernal equinox. Artistic Director Fethi Karakecili’s vision of sharing mythologies and cultural…
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Category Archives: Canada
Iraq’s sectarian, religious, and ethnically-based election tensions reach Canada
By Aram Azez: While Iraq is currently experiencing some difficult sectarian, religious and ethnic tensions, its political, tribal, and social groups are keen to approach the April 30th elections to cast their votes hoping to impact their country’s scrambling political and economic landscapes. However, the mistrust among Iraq’s most divided groups, vying for their supporters’…
From Hell to Where?
Book Review by Ava Homa: Review of Mary Jo Leddy’s ‘Our Friendly Local Terrorist’ Suleyman Govan is a Kurd from Dersim who arrives in Canada in 1991. Dersim is the region of Seyit Riza, the Kurdish leader who in 1937 took the noose from his executioners and placed it on his own neck, denying the…
Canada 1st country to recognize 1988 Iran political prisoner massacre as ‘crime against humanity’
By Sharif Behruz and Zakarya Khezeryan: Canada’s government and opposition MPs voted on an NDP motion to condemn the massacre of thousands of political prisoners by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 1988, as a crime against humanity. This motion was not only a step towards honouring the memory of the victims, but…
Sign the petition for recognizing the Kurdish Genocide by the Saddam Hussein regime
By Jim Karygiannis MP: In 2010, I had the pleasure of introducing Motion M-505 in the Canadian House of Commons, which recognized the actions of Saddam Hussein against the Kurds, as a crime against humanity. The time has come for us to ask that these actions, including the Anfal Campaign and gassing of the Kurds…
‘Mem U Zin’ on stage in Toronto, Canada on October 2
Interview with Fethi Karakecili by Ava Homa: Fethi Karakecili – an artistic director, dancer, choreographer, educator and scholar – was born in Urfa, Northern Kurdistan. He received his Bachelors degree in Folk Dance at the State Conservatory in Turkey and completed his Master’s in Dance at Istanbul Technical University – Social Science Institute. He taught for…
