Newroz Fire

Bonfires lit on 21 March mark resistance, unity, and the return of spring.

Hawar Magazine

Published in 1932 by Celadet Bedirxan, Hawar popularized the Latin Kurdish alphabet.

Kurdistan Newspaper

Printed in Cairo in 1898, it is considered the first Kurdish-language newspaper.

Botan Emirate

Bedirxan presses and schools in the 1800s sparked modern Kurdish civic life.