Culture & Heritage
Folktales
The stories told by grandmothers at firesides.
Xecê û Siyabend
A tragic Kurdish love epic that every dengbêj keeps in memory. Xecê was a girl of the Shekhan tribe; Siyabend a shepherd of a rival tribe in the Mount Cudi rang...
Mem û Zîn
The greatest Kurdish love story was written by the poet Ahmedê Xanî in 1692, and is still recited and sung. It tells of Mem, the son of a Bohtan prince, who fel...
Kawa the Blacksmith
In a far-off age, the land of Media — today's Kurdistan — was ruled by a tyrant named Zahhak (Azhi Dahaka in the original Median), on whose shoulders had grown...