The award for best international film at the 26th Irnos Independent Film Festival in Poland went to the joint slaughter of Ako Zendkarimi and Saman Hosseinpour.

The name of 30 Kurdish elites who were honored in the Kurdish Elites Congress were announced in the closing ceremony held late on Wednesday in Kurdistan University.

The head of the language and literature scientifice committee of the International Kurdish Elites Congress explained the process which elects the elites who are supposed to be honored in the congress planned for July 2 and 3 in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province.

“Our organization and a number of environmentalists in Pishdar District decided to place food and grain in the mountainous areas of Pishdar, especially in the region of Kele, which has seen much snowfall,” Omed Rasoul, told Kurdistan 24 on Friday.

The Metro Nashville Public Schools board will vote on Tuesday on whether to include the Kurdish language in a list of international languages available to students for credit.

Back in August, when Behrouz Boochani was speaking with NPR over the phone, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist said his debut book, written mostly with texts he sent from an Australian detention center, was meant “to make a challenge against this system, to tell the truth to people.”

The contiguous Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria sit in the north central area of the Middle East. Over the millennia, numerous ethnicities have migrated, settled or natively inhabited the area including Turks, Persians, Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Chechens, Azeris and others.

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