Civil Society Programme in Duhok
Civil Society Programme in Duhok
Photograph of participants and facilitators at a workshop held as part of a Civil Society Programme in Xanke camp in Duhok. From 2017-18 the Kurdish Centre, in collaboration with PEN International, ran creative writing workshops for young people and women in five Ezidie Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps across the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. Abdal Nuri, standing first on the right, is a Kurdish Centre representative based in Iraqi Kurdistan who facilitated on this project. The poet and writer Selam Balayî, standing second from the left, led the workshops for the young people, teaching them the techniques of creative writing.


















