The Kurdistan Center for Arts & Culture (KCAC) and The Jiyan Archives are coming together to remember, record, and foreground Kurdish women’s archives.
This valuable collaboration is a bridge: between generations, between regions, between what was preserved and what must still be found.
Through archives and community-led work, we will celebrate the narratives and identities of Kurdish women - past and present, at home in Kurdistan and in diaspora.
This collaboration belongs to all Kurdish women - ensuring their histories are documented, seen and celebrated.
Kurdish Women:
Memory and Archives
A Joint Call from KCAC and The Jiyan Archives
KCAC and The Jiyan Archives are now gathering photographs and archives for consideration in this first historic publication – a printed tribute to the women and daughters of the sun, under the curatorial vision of The Jiyan Archives. We welcome photographs, letters, documents, books, and personal items that document the often-unseen lives of Kurdish women.
All materials will be jointly preserved by KCAC and The Jiyan Archives. All proceeds from this publication will be directed towards Kurdish-led women’s charities.
There are two ways to submit materials. You may visit here to access our online submission form, or visit KCAC’s office in Erbil for a member of the team scan items in person.
To arrange an appointment with KCAC’s team, please email information@kcac.org with a summary of your materials, their categories (photographs, letters or documents, books, personal items) and their relationship to a Kurdish woman, and they will help you preserve these memories for future generations.
When you hold her memory, you hold history. This collaboration is for her.
