{"id":3099,"date":"2022-03-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:51:19","slug":"kurdish-womens-stories-by-houzan-mahmoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/kurdish-womens-stories-by-houzan-mahmoud\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kurdish Women&#8217;s Stories&#8221; by Houzan Mahmoud"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3099\" class=\"elementor elementor-3099\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2ab21c2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2ab21c2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-df3d80b\" data-id=\"df3d80b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7b6d5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d7b6d5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Houzan Mahmoud<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-b13e73a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b13e73a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-36a4dd4\" data-id=\"36a4dd4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40820ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"40820ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1-768x1185.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1-995x1536.jpg 995w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-1-Kurdish-womens-stories-1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>Houzan Mahmoud, ed.,\u00a0<i><em>Kurdish Women\u2019s Stories\u00a0<\/em><\/i>(Pluto Press, 2021). Nonfiction. A collection of autobiographical stories by Kurdish women.\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/p><p>Discussed at our Book Club on July 5, 2022.<\/p><p><b><strong>Houzan Mahmoud<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0Kurdish feminist writer, public lecturer, and activist. She grew up in Ba\u015fur from 1973 to 1991 under the bloody Hussein dictatorship. Now living in the UK, she is a co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureproject.org.uk\">Culture Project<\/a>: Art, Feminism and Gender,\u00a0a platform where emerging and established Kurdish writers, feminists, artists and activists can have space to write openly and freely, especially about issues of gender, both in Kurdistan and in the diaspora.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mahmoud-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"Houzan Mahmoud\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mahmoud-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mahmoud-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mahmoud.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>These twenty-five stories were written by women from all parts of Kurdistan, many from Bashur. The stories grapple with many common themes, including forced migration, disappeared family members, and imprisonment. Many of the women share a common exposure to violence against their bodies, psychology, and sexuality, violence.\u00a0\u00a0Among Kurds, brutality at the hands of state authorities is a normal experience, yet it is and must always remain shocking. Women in these stories often refused to give torturers the satisfaction of seeing them cry, let alone bend to them. Their courage and strength are compelling.\u00a0<\/p><p><em>Kurdish Women&#8217;s Storie<\/em>s is available for purchase from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/9780745341149\/kurdish-womens-stories\/\">Pluto Press<\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Houzan Mahmoud was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LtI7Jy0KhKY&amp;t=542s\">interviewed<\/a>\u00a0by Xeyal Qertel on International Women&#8217;s Day for the NYKCC&#8217;s Kurdish Heritage Month in 2022.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; background-color: var( --e-global-color-c696dce );\">Length: 40 minutes |\u00a0Language; English<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish Women&#8217;s Stories, edited by Houzan Mahmoud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-club","category-nonfiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}