Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in DiasporaEdited by Holly Mason Badra138 pagesISBN: 978-1-68226-273-3 (paper)Release date: June 2025 Sleeping in the Courtyard brings together historically isolated writers in community—and

Goran Baba Ali, The Man Who Was a Tree: A Novel. Afsana Press, 2025. A naked young man wears only a long leaf creeping around his body. In the daytime,

Ata Nahai, Birds in a Gale: A Novel. Translated by Chiya Parvizpur and Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo, with an Introduction by Kawan Mohammadpur. The Book Club discussed this novel onJune 2,

Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the March 7, 2026, meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll discuss The

On January 6, 2026, the NYKCC’s Book Club met to discuss Lingering Faith by Aisha Walat. The novel follows a Kurdish woman, Beritan, and her friends as they form a