'Sacred job': Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture
Sunday, 10 March 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.
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...
Sunday, 10 March 2024
