by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | UK News
Yazidis displaced in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. They also face a mental health crisis that the pandemic threatens to make worse. Zaid, 31, has just heard the news that a resident of Darashakran camp in Erbil has been...
by admin | Apr 15, 2020 | UK Featured, UK News
Today is Serê Sal (New Year), an important festival in the Yazidi calendar. It marks the descent to earth of Tawsi Melek, God’s chief angel, and the revelation of Lalish, the serene temple complex in northern Iraq that is the centre of the faith. Yazidis paint eggs in...
by admin | Dec 10, 2019 | Our Work
Protecting Yazidi Music AMAR is working to record, protect and teach the unique music of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq. Part of the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, the project is helping to preserve and sustain this endangered music for future...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | UK News
The AMAR-led initiative to bring to an end the horrors of religious persecution, which began with a series of high-level conferences in Windsor Castle, has now led to Baghdad. The November event, held over two days in the Iraqi capital, attracted more than 200...
by admin | Feb 18, 2019 | UK Featured, UK News
AMAR’s work with Yazidi women and girls has featured in one of the UK’s leading newspapers, the Daily Mail. Journalist Lena Corner travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to visit the IDP camps where AMAR works. She talked to some of the women there about how their lives have...