I must confess, I didn’t grow up with much Kurdish representation. The only way to do things was by the book — and the dictionary definition of a Kurd is “A member of a mainly Islamic people living in parts of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran, and eastern Syria.” …

“It’s a lot easier to go out for a meal and avoid the bread basket than it is to go out into the world and avoid anti-Kurdish discrimination.” It was a humorous comment on a forum for people recovering from disordered eating, but it was also a metaphor for the…

I’m 20. I have blue eyes and I was blonde as a child. I’ve occasionally thought of taking up playing the violin. …

It’s become a habit of mine to tell white people I have the romantic interests of a frigid nun. “I don’t date,” I say. “I’m not into boyfriends,” I profess. …

I bumped into one of my friends, my first Kurdish friend in fact, the other day and we’ve been back in touch online too. We mentioned our plans for work and education, and I realised something. I know it doesn’t go with the stereotypical image of me or my ethnic…

Kurdish people love connection. This isn’t a political statement, it’s just a fact. It’s something you can see at every Kurdish wedding, when everyone’s dancing in a circle with their hands and shoulders linked together. It shows in the fact that a Kurd in Edinburgh can do business with a…

“I love your room!” my flatmate gushed. “It’s different from anyone else’s.” She ran her fingers over my Kilim cushions, sunk her feet into my rug, and gazed lovingly at Berivan, a vintage tapestry of a Kurdish woman, whom I’d click-and-collected from an old Kurdish man kitted out in full…

Usually I write about racism and privilege, but today I’m going to write about something else. If you know me, you’ll know about my disdain for the Tiktok craze. How I’ve called it dull, distracting, endlessly time-consuming, an unspoken pandemic. But the main reason I don’t use Tiktok is one…

Meeting a Kurd is an interesting and confusing experience in a world where almost everyone has a country they can call their own, and looks at others in terms of what country they call their own. 1.“Are you from Turkey, Iraq, Iran or Syria?” Kurds interpret this as “But where…