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Nasrin’s Path to Civil Engineering in Germany

Ezidi Times

Nasrin arrived in Germany in 2017 at the age of 14 with the ambition of going to university. Now studying civil engineering, the Ezidi student recalls how she continued towards that goal…

4 September: Ezidi Flag Day Honours the Defenders of Shengal

Ezidi Times

4 September marks Ezidi Flag Day, honouring the Ezdixan flag and remembering the Ezidi fighters who defended their people and homeland against IS. The observance brings together national identity and remembrance of…

Pari Ibrahim on WORLD Radio: “The Ideology Remains”

Ezidi Times

Pari Ibrahim, founder and director of the Free Ezidi Foundation, appeared on WORLD Radio’s WORLD History Book segment to speak about the 2014 Ezidi Genocide, the missing and the continued threat posed…

An Ezidi Name Does Not Make a Kurdish-Funded Project Ezidi

Ezidi Times

If “support” means that you may be attacked simply for stating that your ethnicity is Ezidi—not Kurd—that your language is Ezdiki, and that your religion is Şarfadin, then it is not support.…

The Arabisation of Our Name Must End

Ezidi Times

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…

Russia’s First Official Ezidi Student Association

Karina Shamoian

The Ezidi Association of Kutafin Moscow State Law University became the first officially registered Ezidi student association in Russia. Today, under the leadership of Valiko Avdalyan, it continues to promote Ezidi culture,…