We had a great conversation with the one and only Sozan Fahmi! We talked about her recently winning an award from High Council of Women Affairs, her work at Khalsa Aid which is an international NGO with the aim to provide humanitarian aid in disaster areas and conflict zones. We talk about the importance of mentorships, volunteering, and women supporting and uplifting each other. We also talked about marriage , dating , stereotypes and certain traditions that we deal with that aren’t very helpful.
We hope to have Sozan back on the podcast soon to record a conversation in Kurdish!
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Nuveen Barwari and Huner Emin interview artist Walid Siti on the Newave Podcast. Walid Siti takes them through his journey from Duhok, to Baghdad, to Ljubljana, to London. They talk about everything from drawing, mountains, displacement, the Duhok art scene, and the artists childhood.
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Walid Siti was born in 1954, in the city of Duhok, in Iraqi-Kurdistan. After graduating in 1976 from the Institute of Fine arts in Baghdad, Siti left Iraq to continue his arts education in Ljubljana, Slovenia before seeking political asylum in 1984 in the United Kingdom where he lives and works. Formerly trained in printmaking, Siti works extensively in a variety of mediums including video, installation, 3D works, work on paper and painting. His works traverse a complex terrain of memory and loss, while at the same time offering an acute insight into a world, which for him has been a place of constant change. The narrative of Siti’s experience, of a life lived far from but still deeply emotionally connected to the place of one’s birth, is one he shares with many exiles; he takes inspiration from the cultural heritage of his native land that is crisscrossed with militarized borders and waves of migration. The artist’s work considers the tensions between collective identity, interdependence and the constraints placed on the individual by themes of heritage, tradition, homes, borders, mobility and migration.
Website: https://www.walidsiti.com
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Join us for this conversation with Meghan Bodette, an independent researcher focusing on North and East Syria. She is the founder of the Missing Afrin Women Project, which tracks kidnappings and disappearances of women in Turkish-occupied Afrin, Syria. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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Join us with another episode in Kurdish with our guest Rondik!
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We have been a lot happier ever since we recorded this episode with Hivron. We talked about childhood/refugee/diaspora trauma, stigma surrounding mental health, western therapists, theta healing and so much more!
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We had a very productive conversation with Rody about learning, preserving, teaching and speaking the Kurdish language, different dialects, diaspora, a very special project he has been working on and so much more! We hope you enjoy!
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Nan u Mast dgel Pael u Nuveen #1
We are happy to announce that we have a new segment on the Newave Podcast called “Nan u Mast”. Nan u Mast is an imaginary show that we have on a Duhok radio station for 15-20 minutes once a week to fit into your morning routine.
( Nan u Mast)
di gel Pêl u Nuvîn.
Em wek podcast a Newave di xuš halîn bi ragehandina gušeya me ya nuyî bi navê “Nan u Mast”.
Nan u Mast, bernamekê heftîtaneye ku em xeyal dikeyîn li ser radîyo eka devera Duhok ê bi hête pexiškirin li berên sipêda.
Em di bernamê Nan u Mast de dê li ser rotîna xiwe ya sipêdehîya axivîn u behsa serhatîyên xiwe u guhdara keyîn.
Me divêt demekê sivik u xiweš bi keyîne mêhvan li sipêdeya guhdara damê di čine ser rojanên xiwe.
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Huner Emin is a stateless artist from southern Kurdistan. Emin uses art as a tool to express political and social issues in his society. Huner Emin studied western art with a concentration on formalism both in Iraq and the U.S. Join us for this episode as we talk about art school, honor violence, “ayb” culture, thinking in multiple languages, and the importance of having an art community. Nuveen and Huner also talk about their admiration for contemporary artists Hiwa K. and Sarbast Mustafa! Huner also tells us about that one time he did a performance in a mosque… and so much more!
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Website: www.huneremin.com
I am a stateless Kurdish artist from south Kurdistan/northern Iraq. My nation is divided among four
different countries. Therefore, I use art as a tool to express political and social problems in my society. I
studied western art, concentrating on formalism, both in Iraq and in the US. However, I am in constant
search for an identity, alternating between western and eastern culture. This parallel thinking was a
pursuit of authenticity that led to my art making process.
I work predominantly on political subject matters. My ideas develop through planning, reorganizing, and
experimenting in various medias. In my conceptual pieces, the audience is juxtaposed between
instillation materials and video art. However, my paintings are combinations of abstract forms and
Pahlavi writing characters, which I want to resurrect in order to unify the Kurdish language(s). It is an
attempt to bring storytelling to the artwork by incorporating calligraphy, as I believe that narrative gives
extra dimension to the art as well as being a symbol rediscovering my identity.
In Kurdish society, life is overwhelmed with politics. Everybody follows news channels on daily basis,
whether in their homes or at the coffee houses. It is hard for me to extract my art from my environment,
where I observed political issues. Involuntarily, I find that my art is forming itself.
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We had a very productive, funny, and informative conversation with the author, journalist and editor of the weekly newsletter ‘what happened last week?’. We learned about news consumption, the importance of making the news more accessible and fun for everyone and so much more!
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Join us on the Newave Podcast for this awesome conversation with Dilan Sirwan based out of Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan. Dilan Sirwan Hussein is a student at the American University of Iraq, majoring in Political studies. He is the current Editor-in-chief of the AUIS voice, an independent student-based newspaper in Iraq. As a young activist in the region, he has been utilizing the amplifying impact of social media platforms to highlight the Kurdish struggle. twitter : @DeelanSirwan
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Welcome to Season 3!! Thank you guys for sharing this journey with us and we look forward to a lot of new exciting content in the future! In this episode of the Newave Podcast.. Pael is feeling very homesick and is missing Duhok very much. Join the Newave as they discuss their feelings and about how much they miss home.
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Join us for a wonderful conversation with Pel Doski, Kurdish American poet based in Nashville, TN. Her work is defined by layered imagery of water, flowers, and celestial bodies—all symbolic to her personal growth and observations of societal growth. She has been published in an anthology of Kurdish writers titled The Kurdish Progeny” and in various Magazine around the world. We talk about her poetry, switching majors in college, pressures from family, doing the things you wanna do and so much more! Her work can be found on her instagram @wavedoski and her blog HelbestUHizir.wordpress.com @helbestuhizir
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DISCLAIMER: this episode was pre recorded 2 months ago
Join us for a wonderful conversation with our favorite author Jîl Şwanî. He is currently based out of Denmark. We talk in depth about his writing process/ practice, some of the stories he has written in the past and projects he hopes to make in the future. We also talk about our undying love for Kurdistan, the double standards/expectations Kurds in diaspora face, we talk about different Kurdish dialects, the dismissive culture of not physically being present, and so much more!
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Wern dgel Newave dve bername da pkurdi baxavin! Em taxavin lser babeta Cejna Eide lKurdistane u lAmerica, u ferq u judahiya we chewaye, em lser lugheti taxavin (u Kurdiya me), behse Duhoke u Duhokistane tkeyn, u behse philosophye (felsefe) ji tkeyn! Join the Newave this episode as we speak in Kurdish! We talk about the differences between celebrating the Eid holiday in both America and Kurdistan, we also talk about language and the difficulties in being bilingual, and whether or not if Philosophy is dead. Music Credit: Eyaz Yosif Follow us on our Socials! instagram: @newavepodcast @paellos @serhatyet_paellos @fufucreations @nuveenbarwari Twitter: @nuveenbarwari @paellos96 @newavepodcast
Join the Newave as we have a wonderful conversation with our favorite librarian, Kahin Mohammad, about his excellent tweets, baking, what it’s like working at the Library of Congress, the importance of calling racist people out, representation in spaces that are dominantly white, art, relationships with parents as you get older, the Nashville Kurdish community, and so much more! Follow him on twitter @Kahin
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Join the Newave as we have a cozy conversation with writer/filmmaker Beri Shalmashi! They talk about the importance of representation in the arts, making serious issues accessible for a western audience, depicting diaspora in her films, the struggles that Kurdish artists face when they choose a career path in the arts, her experience teaching film in Southern Kurdistan, Kurdish women in leadership roles, generational gaps, the need for more Kurdish actresses! We discussed her previous works and upcoming project Big Village in depth and most importantly she encourages all creatives to be more weird! This episode is very dear to us because it felt like we were talking to our big sister. The advice she gave us was so important!
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Join Nuveen Barwari and Pael Abdullah on the Newave Podcast as they talk to their guest Marlos E’van about the kind of art and artists that emerge during oppressive political times. They discuss the history and ideologies about the Black Panther Party that most schools in the Bible Belt fail to teach students. They explore the correlations and complexities between the Black Panther Party and the Kurdish resistance movement and how both have been victim to misrepresentation and false labels. We will critically look at the art that has come out of both parties and discuss why and how the art and artists are so crucial to movements such as these! There will be a blog post to include all of the images we talk about in the episode at fufucreations.com along with other links and resources to further your knowledge!
