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'Sacred job': Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on March 10, 2024
Rebin Pishtiwan digitizes historic Kurdish books to preserve the culture and history of Kurdistan. The Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture launched a digitization project to provide primary sources for Kurdish readers and researchers. Access to rare manuscripts is made possible through the project.
Video credit: AFP English
Published on March 12, 2024 - 03:05
Iraqi 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 a project launched by the Kurdistan Centre for Art and Culture (KCAC) to digitise historic Kurdish texts at risk of disappearing forever. Kurds are seen as the world's largest stateless people and in Iraq, where the KCAC's project takes place, the minority group was persecuted -- with thousands killed -- under late dictator Saddam Hussein.