Nadia’s Initiative is a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 by Nadia Murad that advocates for survivors of sexual violence and aims to rebuild communities in crisis. In August 2014, ISIS surrounded the quiet Yazidi farming village of Kocho in Sinjar as part of an effort to ethnically cleanse Yazidis from Iraq. In the week leading…
Manuel Martorell is a Spanish journalist and one of the founders of the national daily El Mundo, where he held the posts of Editor-in-Chief and Foreign Editor. He has been covering the Kurds since 1983 and has published three books on the subject and produced a number of television documentaries. 8 February 2015. This will…
Robert Twigger is an acclaimed travel writer who has written on Japan and the Nile. Here, as a guest blogger for the Asian Affairs Weblog, he hails the 50th anniversary of the publication of Idries Shah’s The Sufis: It is 50 years since the publication of Idries’ Shah’s ground-breaking The Sufis, with its introduction by…
