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Patrick Hennessey: Lest We Forget

Tuesday 9 September 2014 | by Patrick Hennessey

The role of memoir in making sense of the human experience of war

Ben Hammersley: digital writing about war

Monday 8 September 2014 | by Ben Hammersley

Ben Hammersley: digital writing and conflict

Caroline Wyatt: reportage in war

Monday 8 September 2014 | by Caroline Wyatt

Caroline Wyatt reflects on the role of reportage in making sense of the human experience of war

Owen Sheers: war poetry

Monday 8 September 2014 | by Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers reflects on war poetry in this thought piece

Helen Dunmore - May I Ask You What Village That Is?

Monday 8 September 2014 | by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore reflects on the role of fiction when writing about war

"Women in Kurdistan are Not Passive Victims": An Interview with Choman Hardi

Tuesday 15 April 2014 | by Choman Hardi

The Niniti International Literature Festival launches on the 22nd of April in Erbil, Iraq- a continuation of the Erbil Literature Festival, now in its third year. 'Niniti' is a Sumerian epithet meaning 'lady of life', chosen to reflect the festival's focus on women's writing. Choman Hardi is a Kurdish poet and academic. Her poems have been published by Bloodaxe Books and celebrated widely. She has a PhD on the effects of forced migration on Kurdish women from Iraq and Iran and her post-doctoral research, published by Routledge, was concerned with gendering the Anfal genocide in Kurdistan-Iraq. Forced to flee her homeland twice, she is also the founder of Serdemi Jim, a journal of women's writing and culture. Here she talks to us about women in Kurdistan, the effects of voyage and return on the immigrant's identity, and the intersection between poetry and politics.