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The International Ezidi Theological Academy has completed the first academic year for its third student cohort. Thirteen students from Georgia, France, Germany and Iraq completed courses in religious studies, philosophy, Middle Eastern…
An opinion piece by Ibrahim Yazidi Shankal argues that the KDP used the fear created by the 2007 Sinjar bombings to recruit Ezidi youth, restrict movement and place local recruits inside security…
Nineveh police have arrested a doctor at Mosul’s Republican Hospital after anti-Ezidi social-media posts triggered widespread anger and calls for legal action. The Iraqi judiciary ordered his detention under Article 202 while…
Reports published in July used [“Yazidi”] as hostile references connected to Yazid ibn Muawiya, although neither report concerned the Ezidi people. Ezidi Times calls on Ezidis to reject imposed spellings beginning with…
Four tents were destroyed after a fire broke out at the Sheikhan displacement camp in Duhok on 21 July 2026. No casualties were reported, but several Ezidi families lost their shelters and…
Inas K., an Ezidi student who survived the 2014 genocide and years of displacement, has shared her journey from Sinjar to higher education in Germany and the United States.
A delegation of Ezidi representatives visited Batman Governor Ekrem Canalp ahead of a ceremony connected to the restoration of the Sheikh Evinda sacred site in Beşiri.
Twelve years after the Ezidi genocide, many survivors remain in displacement camps in Iraq, while Ezidi families in Europe continue to face deportation despite unresolved insecurity, trauma and the absence of a…
A youth delegation from Iraq visited the Sultan Ezid Temple and the International Ezidi Theological Academy in Tbilisi on 13 July as part of the Ezdikhan Fellowship programme.
Joseph Sliwa has accused the KDP of using Christian clergy to bypass independent Assyrian political representation. Ezidis recognise the same method in the elevation of Hazim Tahsin Beg as an unelected representative…
An article promoting a Tbilisi memorial repeatedly calls the 2014 Ezidi Genocide a “Yazidi Kurdish genocide.” Ezidis cannot be honoured while their identity and history are rewritten for a Kurdish political narrative.
A Munich court has sentenced a Kurdish ISIS member to life imprisonment and his former partner to nine years and six months for genocide and the abuse of two Ezidi girls held…
Shireen A, a member of the ICMGLT Ezidi Working Group, has earned her Master’s degree in British Literature and Cultures from the University of Bonn.
At a European Parliament hearing on women’s rights, Jino Victoria Doabi presented Ezidis, Jews, Christians and others as part of the Kurdish people. Ezidis reject this claim, condemn the use of our…
Giorgi (“George”) Gigauri reflects on whether displacement, migration, and integration may threaten the long-term survival of the Ezidi people by weakening the bonds between identity, memory, and ancestral place.
The Yazidi Cause Alliance has issued a statement supporting Chaldeans, Syriacs and Assyrians protesting in Dohuk over land encroachments, calling for judicial rulings to be enforced and rightful landowners protected.
Iraqi President Nizar Amedi has reaffirmed that justice for the Ezidi people remains a national commitment, with focus on missing persons, return, reconstruction, and survivor support.
Ezidis in Germany, Oldenburg, Ezidi Forum Oldenburg, Ezidi voices, remembrance culture, migration, identity, Sharfadin, Ezidi youth, cultural participation, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg.
Concerns are growing over the asylum situation of Ezidis in Germany, as many survivors and displaced families continue to face uncertainty in protection procedures.
A new school in Sinjar is working to preserve the Ezidi mother tongue, Ezdiki, by teaching children traditional words, expressions, and spoken language connected to Ezidi identity.
