Project
Archiving the Yezidi culture
The project is commission by Hawar.help, a human rights organisation. It's aim is to archive the Yezidi culture.
- Country: Iraq
- Contact person: info@elbarlament.org
- Project duration: December 2024-Febuary 2025
- Project objective: Build an archive for Yezidi culture
Background
HÁWAR.help e. V. is a human rights organisation that was founded on the ashes of the Yezidi genocide. It implements development and education programs in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany, as well as international awareness and education initiatives as well as political work – including on the revolution in Iran.
Hawar.help reached out to us because of our well-known established work in Iraq, to support them in archiving the Yezidi community.
Activities
This was a short-term project commissioned by Hawar.help organisation to build an archive for Yezidi culture, coordinated with partners in Erbil and Germany. The archival work involves field work in Sinjar for interviews and material collection. It included an exhibition which will also be presented in Germany in 2025. More details will be shared soon.
The project was commissioned by Hawar.help, a human rights organisation.
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