As an admirable reader of his second novel Masumlar (Innocents) I was looking for an opportunity to meet with Burhan Sonmez in person, but it was not realized until our common friend Moris Farhi put...
What is the significance of culture and literature for an oppressed people and a forbidden language? How is literature kept alive when language is strangled? The Kurdish writer Suzan Samancis tries to...
Firat Ceweri is the guest editor of this issue number "I see you in a glowing amber", a line from Kurdish poet Farhad Shakely's poem "Send an ember, one night, to see in my dreams". He provides an...
Dilsha Yusuf is a poet, journalist and translator. She debuted in 2002 with the poetry collection "Mötets ringklocka." Yusuf has published 12 books. Two of them are poetry collections and the rest are...
Poems: Dilsha Yusuf
February 16 2023
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