This testimonies are part of Respond’s Kurdish storytelling project. Visit the main project page here.
They are not allowed to write in Kurdish on their shop banners.
“In the city’s universities, professors explain everything in Arabic, although half of students are Kurdish, and this makes it a big difficulty for them to understand what they are studying. Therefore, Kurdish parents have started to send their children to Arabic schools to make studying at university easier for them. This may not seem like a big issue for most people, but it is!”
- Sarah Ali Mohammed Amin, 22-year-old Sorani speaker in Bashur