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Interview with the Free Women’s Movement (TJA) in North Kurdistan
After the Syrian Kurds’ fight for Kobane against ISIS in 2014-5, many across the world were suddenly made aware of the Kurdish women’s movement
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Kobane University, a year on
The University in Kobane opened in September 2017 with 45 students. This year 120 people have already enrolled and the number is growing
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Kobane. On the pistachio’s trail
In Kobane pistachios are once again being harvested. The Autonomous Administration is promoting new cooperatives to produce the precious and ancient nut.
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Radio Kobane: Resistance on air
The radio was the only media available as electricity was being cut just before the attack by DAESH on Kobane in 2014
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Hand in Hand with the Women’s Revolution
Women of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava made a call for an international feminist delegation throughout Rojava
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Return to Kobane – Part 2
Patrizia Fiocchetti has been in Kobane to open the Women’s Academy. Here the second part of her notes on the visit to the city
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Return to Kobane – Part One
Patrizia Fiocchetti has been in Kobane to open the Women’s Academy. Here is the first part of her feature about the journey
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Kobane, three years after
Patrizia Fiocchetti was in Kobane just after its liberation from DAESH, in January 2015
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Kobane, three years after the liberation
Patrizia Fiocchetti has gone back to Kobane three years after the liberation from DAESH and found a city full of life and activities
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Artists in Neim Square organised ‘’Art against war” exhibition
Ehmedê Huseyin: ”Artists can create life from death. The role of the intellectuals during the war times is very important. Neim Square was a place of fear and death but today it has become the square of colour, happiness and beauty”
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