The Kurdish Digital Archive is part of the DAME (Digital Archive of the Middle East) project, hosted at the University of Exeter.
Its aim is not only to digitize and make accessible key Kurdish materials from the University’s own archival collections, but also to collaborate with other Kurdish archives and institutions in fostering joint research, the sharing of archival resources and the preservation and dissemination of Kurdish cultural heritage.
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- The Kurdish Digital Archive
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Kurdish Culture and Arts Centre
The Kurdistan Center for Arts & Culture (KCAC) is an organization based in Erbil dedicated to building an inclusive global community that celebrates, preserves, and promotes Kurdistan’s heritage, culture, and art.
Kurdish Heritage Institute
Founded in 2003, the Kurdish Heritage Institute is a non-governmental organization for preserving Kurdish heritage and music based in Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Zheen
Founded in 2004 and based in Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zheen is a library, an archive, a research centre and a publishing house, which has undertaken extensive work in digitising books, periodicals, newspapers and other materials relating to Kurdish history and culture.
Dengbêj Gazîn
Dengbêjs are among the most prestigious Kurdish oral performers. Through melodised speech, they recount historical events, legendary narratives, and personal experiences. This digital archive contains the repertoire of Dengbêj Gazîn (1959–2018), a singer-poet from Tetwan (Tatvan) and one of the most renowned female Kurdish dengbêjs of her time. Dengbêjs have played a central role in the transmission of Kurdish history and have preserved the richness of the Kurdish language. This archival collection offers rare insight into the creative processes of a female dengbêj. Due to restrictive social norms, Kurdish women singers have often found it difficult to perform in public. Based on 210 sound recordings, the archive makes available the original audio recordings of Dengbêj Gazîn, alongside (Kurmanji) Kurdish transcriptions and Turkish translations, supplemented by critical editorial commentary.
https://qed.perspectivia.net/gazin
The Kasım Demiralp Archive
Kasım Demiralp (1924-98) was born in Bingöl into a family that include notable Kurdish figures such as Miralay Halid Bey/Xalid Beg (1882-1925), Seyîd Rıza (1863-1937, Sheikh Sait (1866-1925), Mihemedê Xelîlê Xeto and Reşidê Ehmedê Xeto. As a lawyer and historian, Demiralp gathered a large collection of material, not only on his own family but also on the wider Kurdish community in the region. The bîr initiative has launched a project to preserve and publish this important archive, through digitisation, films, exhibitions and publications.