Mehdi Tavakoli, a Kurdish photographer from Sine (Sanandaj), was killed on 26 July 2026, along with his mother, Maryam Aslani, and his sister, Somayye. Their car was shot at by the IRGC and the so-called Ministry of Intelligence on the road east of Baneh.

The Kurdish Studies Journal, the Kurdish Studies Network, and the Kurdish Gender Studies Network are expressing deep concern over planned budget cuts to the University of Exeter's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, including the Centre for Kurdish Studies (CKS).

The new issue of Kurdish Studies Journal is here! Vol. 4, No. 1 (2026) features three research articles, alongside obituaries honoring Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan and Vera Eccarius-Kelly, plus four book reviews.

You can access the issue through Brill's website: brill.com/view/journal...

This Pride Month, we’re revisiting our 2023 special issue Kurdish Queer Studies, edited by Hakan Sandal-Wilson. The issue brings Kurdish Studies and Queer Studies into dialogue, opening up a dialogue that has been largely absent in both fields.

Access the issue here: brill.com/view/journal...

Amid Amedspor's promotion celebrations, we spoke with co-authors Yasin Duman @yasinduman.bsky.social (Postdoc Researcher, KU Leuven, Center for Social&Cultural Psychology) and Revşen Berfin Coşkun (Researcher) on their article "Amedspor in Turkish Football."

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We were at the Kurdish Studies Conference at LSE @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social this week!

We're happy to share that the Kurdish Studies Conference 2026 is taking place this week at LSE (29 April–1 May)!

Find the full program here: www.lse.ac.uk/middleeastce...

We're sharing this upcoming event for anyone in our community interested in Kurdish literary studies!

"Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature" is a virtual conference taking place on May 21–22, 2026, hosted by the University of Connecticut.

Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/msxv9fsf

The Kurdish Studies Journal sits down with co-editor Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca to discuss the special issue “Homemaking and Homelessness after Forced Migration in Kurdish Contexts,” edited by Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca and Handan Caglayan (November 2025).

We are delighted to share news of the inaugural Kurdish Culture & Scholarship Week, currently underway at the University of Toronto (March 16–20).

Ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Kurdish Studies Journal (KSJ) depends on institutional support. Therefore, we invite you to ask your institutional library to subscribe to the journal in digital or, preferably, print format.

Thank you for your support!

A review by Yasin Duman of “Historical Traumas among Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish People of Anatolia: A Transdisciplinary Perspective toward Reconciliation” by Nermin Soyalp has been published in the Kurdish Studies Journal! ☀️

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Join us for an online event on Dengbêj Gazîn: Songs of a Kurdish Woman, with Dr. Argun Çakır and, KSJ’s managing editor, Dr. Marlene Schäfers.

More information about the event, including the Zoom link, can be found on the event webpage: oiist.org/en/event/dr-...

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