CULTURE

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• Yazidi House opened in Aleppo 

  Four years have passed since the Shengal genocide. Thousands of Kurdish Yazidis are still living in refugee camps and waiting to return home.
• Art exhibition in Raqqa 

  Art and culture were forbidden during the DAESH occupation in Raqqa city.
• A Syrian musician talks about his pain 

  Musician Ömer Gülcan left Syria and is now living in Antep but dreams of going back to his city, Azaz.
• "How can one be afraid of a cultural festival?" 

  The annual "Culture and Nature Festival Munzur" in Dersim has been banned by the governor. Women from Dersim wonder how one can be so afraid of a festival.
• History Museum in Raqqa to be repaired 

  The centuries-old pieces are being repaired and will be exhibited again.
• Kurdish film wins award from International Film Festival 

  Zer tells the story of Jan, who sets out to discover the song his grandmother, who survived the Dersim Massacre of 1938.
• Culture against Turkish occupation of Afrin 

  A cultural action to condemn the Turkish occupation of Afrin.
• Dengbej culture among guerrillas 

  Guerrilla Dozger carries on the dengbêj culture among guerrillas.
• New caves discovered in Hasankeyf 

  The millenary site of Hasankeyf will soon be flooded by the Ilisu Dam.
• Second Rojava Book Fair was a great success 

  The Book Fair exhibited some 30 thousand books
• Amude: Where France and Northern Syria cultures met 

  Asya Cultural Centre will host activities to promote French and Northern Syrian cultures.
• Dersim Festival banned 

  The traditional festival has been banned by the Governor.
• Theatre discussed at Rojava Book Fair 

  The Second Rojava Book Fair will end today.
• Photos of Asayish forces exhibited at Rojava Book Fair 

  Photographs of Asayish (Public Security) Forces are exhibited at the Book Fair in Qamishlo.
• Book Fair in Qamishlo continued 

  Readings and debates at book fair
• Female painters at the book fair in Qamishlo 

  Paintings of artists from the region are exhibited at the book fair in Qamishlo.
• Munzur Festival to kick off in Dersim 

  Despite the prohibitions and difficulties the traditional festival on the shores of the Munzur river will take place.
• Universities debate the future society in Rojava 

  Education is one of the pillars of the Autonomous Administration model.
• Photos of YPG/YPJ fighters exhibited at the Book Fair in Qamishlo 

  28 photographs of YPG/YPJ members, taken by YPG Press Office member Reşo Kesan during the resistance in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Manbij and Afrin, are exhibited at the ongoing Book Fair in Qamishlo.
• Crowded first day for the Rojava Book Fair 

  The Second Rojava Book Fair will last five days.
• Theatre in Tirbespiyê 

  ‘The Quest for Truth’ played in Tirbespiyê to celebrate the Rojava Revolution.
• Theater group from Makhmur on Rojava tour 

  Koma Hêviyekda, a theater company from the southern Kurdistan refugee camp in Makhmur, is on tour in Rojava with its play "Seeking the Truth".
• Rojava Film Commune opens offices in Kobanê 

  The Rojava Film Commune promotes Kurdish cinema.
• Mazlum Doğan Youth Festival in The Hague 

  The festival has reached its edition 21.
• Book on Öcalan promoted in London 

  The new book on Öcalan titled “Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey” was promoted in the event held in SOAS University of London.