Rezan Babakir

Introduction Karahan Tepe (Kurdish: Girê Keçel; Turkish: Karahantepe) is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Şanlıurfa Province in southeastern Turkey, deep in the Upper Mesopotamian heartland that lies at the geographic core of the Kurdish world. Dated to roughly 9500–9000 BCE, it is a sister site of the famous Göbekli Tepe — and may be even older, possibly the earliest known human village anywhere. Carved into a limestone hillside in the Tek Tek Mountains, Karahan Tepe has yielded rows of...

Within the ancient Citadel of Erbil, in a restored mansion, the Kurdish Textile Museum preserves the carpets, kilims, costumes, and weaving traditions of Kurdistan — a guardian of a precious craft heritage atop the heart of Hewlêr.

Stephen Mansfield: The American Author Who Told the World “The Miracle of the Kurds” Who Is Stephen Mansfield? Stephen Mansfield (born 1958) is an American New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and leadership coach who became one of the most widely read Western chroniclers of the modern Kurdish story. His 2014 book, The Miracle of the Kurds, is an accessible introduction to Iraqi Kurdistan written for a general American audience, and it was named “Book of the Year” by Rudaw, the...