London Kurdish Film Festival & Portobello Pop Up Cinema Present: For decades, working beyond the control of the governments of Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, Kurdish filmmakers have made many remarkable films under incredible conditions. In today’s critical times, we’ve put together a snap ‘pop-up’ season – with Kurdish film-makers in attendance – to bring urgent attention to the Kurdish people,…
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By Sabir Hasan Birot: This article was first published in ‘The Linguist’ A Kurdish interpreter faces many challenges; if they are working with asylum-seekers, they are confronted with many more. One of the first issues is likely to be that Kurdish is a multidialectal language. Kurmanji, Sorani, Bahdini and Zazaki are the four major dialects….
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