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Shams Humanitarian NGO met representatives of Armenia’s Prime Minister’s Office on 5 November to discuss Ezdiki-language education, cultural representation and stronger institutional support for Ezidis in Armen
Representatives of the Yezidisches Forum Oldenburg e. V. and the Syriac Orthodox St.-Johannes-Gemeinde met a visiting Turkish political and consular delegation on 31 October and 1 November. Religious freedom, identity, cultural heritage…
Ezidi culture was among the traditions presented by pupils, parents and teachers at a two-day cultural fair at Znamenskaya Secondary School in Tambov Oblast ahead of Russia’s National Unity Day.
Following the start of YBŞ integration into Iraqi security institutions, the Yezidi Cause Alliance has called on Baghdad to establish a civilian local administration in Sinjar. The Alliance says any future administration…
10 Years On: The Ezidi Genocide, directed by four-time Emmy Award winner Bared Maronian, has received the Best Feature Documentary award at the 11th Forest City Film Festival in London, Ontario.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan has said that “Ezidi” and other ethnic designations must never be used as insults or tools for humiliation. Her statement calls on officials, politicians and media…
Ezidi artist Siabando Sloyan is exhibiting paintings in Yaroslavl, Russia, in a show dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ezidis in the region. His work brings together memories of Armenia, scenes from…
Iraq has begun integrating members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) into federal security institutions after taking control of a strategic position on Mount Sinjar. The move may reshape local security, but…
Authorities are preparing to exhume 18 further mass graves from the Ezidi Genocide of 2014 in Sinjar. The work will begin once technical and legal procedures are agreed, while families continue waiting…
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad returned to Chapman University in California to discuss her new memoir, I Choose My Beginning, in a conversation about survival, family, identity and the freedom to…
Seven years after Nadia Murad asked France to help rebuild Sinjar following the Ezidi Genocide, the Sinjar French Medical Center is open to the public. The hospital gives returning Ezidi families access…
ISIS did not create unity. ISIS committed genocide against Ezidis. How can a good and honest cause benefit from the suffering of another people? In this interview conducted by Rûdaw, the kurdish…
A German court has asked the European Court of Justice whether an Ezidi man who fled the 2014 genocide can retain refugee protection after briefly visiting Iraq to see his comatose mother.…
Armenia will hold its 2026 voluntary certification examination for Ezidi-language teachers on 14 November at 10:00. The paper-based assessment gives teachers of Êzdîkî a formal route to certification and may affect their…
A new local feature has brought attention to the lives of an estimated 4,000 Ezidis in Novosibirsk. Ezidi representatives described their efforts to preserve identity, Sharfadin and cultural traditions while seeking land…
During a Nuçe TV discussion about proposed changes to Iraq’s Constitution, Rîham H. of Sinjar rejected Remezan Kerîm’s attempt to label her a “kurdish-Ezidi,” declaring: “We are not kurds, nor Arabs. We…
The Ezidi Cultural Centre in Tbilisi has opened registration for weekend Ezdiki language courses beginning on 7 November 2026. Held every Saturday and Sunday at the cultural centre attached to the Ezidi…
What began with a conversation with survivors of the 2014 Ezidi Genocide has grown into an international educational initiative. Dutch founder Margaret Rijkelijkhuizen shares how Yazidi at School began, the challenges of…
A statement attributed to the Sinjar Autonomous Administration alleged on 22 October 2026 that suspicious movements were taking place around the district following earlier Turkish threats. The administration appealed to Baghdad to…
Ezidi Times profiles Bailoz Omarchali, an Ezidi painter born in Tbilisi in 1961 who has been based in Utrecht since 1994. Trained at the M. Toidze Art School and the Tbilisi State…
