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Iraq Kurds digitise historic books in ‘sacred job’ to save threatened culture

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Kurdish Center for Arts and Culture is digitising historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing. The Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million mostly spread across modern day Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted, with thousands killed under the rule of Saddam Hussein.

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South China Morning Post

Iraq Kurds digitise historic books in ‘sacred job’ to save threatened culture

In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted and lost many of their historic documents.

2 months ago·Hong Kong

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Al-Monitor

'Sacred job': Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture

Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitise historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing.Seen as the world's largest stateless people, the Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million mostly spread across modern day Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted, with thousands killed under the rule …

2 months ago·Washington, United States

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