S3E178 - Kareem Abdulrahman about challenges in Translating Kurdish Literature (Kurdish)

Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation-state of their own.  The Kurds live in a geo-political area called "Kurdistan", the land of the Kurds, which straddles four different countries in today's Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.

Today’s Guest is Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem Abdulrahman is a translator and Kurdish affairs analyst. From 2006 to 2014, he worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC, where translation was part of his job. In 2013, he was awarded a place in the British Centre for Literary Translation’s prestigious mentorship programme. He transla...