KURDISTAN, Kurdish Matters in the Middle East and Kurdistan

KURDISTAN, Kurdish matters in the Middle East and the diaspora.

Reza Shahmoradi Kurdish Community in Melbourne, KNSC, and Expanding Relations with Other Communities 

Behrouz BoochaniKurdistan in the Middle East – A Brief History of Kurdistan and the Kurdish People’s Struggle for Freedom

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish author and journalist based in New Zealand who was incarcerated as a political prisoner by the Australian government on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (2013-2019). His book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador 2018) has won numerous awards including the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature Australia, the National Biography Award Australia, and the Australia, book industry award. He is co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time. The film was shot over six months on a smartphone. The film had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival and was shown at some other international film festivals such as London Film Festival and Gothenburg Film Festival. Boochani published the book “ Freedom, Only Freedom” (Edited and translated: by Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoubi) in 2022 by Bloomsbury in London. In this book, his collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration, refugees' rights, politics and literature. His third book is a collection of short stories called “The stories from another island” which is going to be published in March 2027 by Picador