Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain

Research Innovation on Gender, Culture & Society / Evaluator & Consultant / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher/MCAA Fellow

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

My latest article on my childhood growing up as a Kurd in Saddam's Baghdad.
https://t.co/3KUL7xl6DY

[Kurds on X @kurdX_]

The breathtaking beauty of the Qandil Mountains in Kurdistan. Just look at that stunning contrast where majestic snow-capped peaks meet those endless, vibrant green hills. Truly nature at its absolute finest. ☀️🏔️

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

The women who saved the world from 1S1S☀️

[Festival Culturel Kurde de Paris @festivalkurde]

Une vibrante manifestation de la culture kurde dans les rues de Paris hier, suivie d’un défilé tout aussi rayonnant à la mairie du 10e.

Et ce n’est pas fini… Rendez-vous ce soir pour le concert de clôture du festival !
🎟️ https://t.co/YLkdcpD3fZ

[YPJ ROJAVA @YPJDefense]

Li Qamişloyê gel ji bo YPJ‘ê dimeşe.

Li bajarê Qamişloyê bi pêşengiya jinan û jinên ciwan meşeke girseyî ji bo piştgiriya YPJ‘ê û qebûlkirina statuya wê meşeke tê lidarxistin.

#YPJ #YPG #DefendRojava
👇👇
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[ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ @TodayAssyria]

🕯️ An Assyrian Christian woman among 80,000 Assyrian Christian refugees passing through Bijar, Iran, after fleeing the Urmia region in 1918 during the Ottoman genocide of Christians. Many had already been driven from their ancestral homes in Hakkari and other historic Assyrian Christian homelands before joining this mass exodus.

Behind this photograph lies a story of immense suffering. During Seyfo ("The Sword"), the Assyrian Genocide, hundreds of thousands of Assyrian Christians were massacred, expelled, or forced into exile by the Ottoman Empire and its allied forces. Ancient Assyrian communities that had existed for millennia across Hakkari, Urmia, the Nineveh Plains, and neighboring regions were devastated.

As Ottoman forces advanced, entire villages were destroyed, churches and monasteries were abandoned or ruined, and countless families were torn apart. Many survivors fled into Persia, only to face starvation, disease, exposure, and death along the refugee routes. Women, children, and the elderly endured unimaginable hardships as they searched for safety.

Others continued their journey into Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and across the Caucasus, carrying little more than their faith, language, and memories of the homes they would never see again. From these survivors emerged the modern Assyrian Christian diaspora, scattered across the world yet determined to preserve its identity and heritage.

This image captures one survivor among tens of thousands. It is a testament to the resilience of the Assyrian people and a reminder of Seyfo—the Assyrian Genocide—which uprooted an ancient Christian nation from much of its ancestral homeland.

🌹 Remember the victims.
🕯️ Honor the survivors.
✝️ Never Forget Seyfo.

#Seyfo #AssyrianGenocide #OttomanEmpire #Assyrians #AssyrianHistory #NeverForget #Urmia #Hakkari #NinevehPlains #ChristianGenocide #GenocideAwareness #Aramaic #Caucasus #Armenia #Georgia #Russia #Ukraine #IndigenousPeoples

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

Bakur, Kurdistan 🌞

[The Amargi @the_amargi]

Viyan Devrim, a Kurdish fighter from Qamishlo, says change once felt impossible. "As a woman, it was almost like a fantasy regarding the things we couldn't do." Years later, facing a government that refuses to recognize the YPJ, she says: "We are here and we will remain.

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

"Personne n'est plus arrogant envers les femmes, plus agressif ou méprisant, qu'un homme inquiet pour sa virilité."
Simone de Beauvoir

[Washington Kurdish Institute @wdckurd]

Kurdistan Digest | May 2026 - https://t.co/qXztPYaevy

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

I’m pleased to share that my edited volume Women, Power, and Gender in the Middle East is now in production with Taylor & Francis (forthcoming in 2026).
Bringing together 9 scholars, the volume interrogates how gender operates as a central structure of power across legal systems.

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

Serê xwe bilind bigire û ber bi rojê ve here.
Keep your head high and move toward the sun. 🌞

[Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc]

Why Kurdish language rights in the new Syria require constitutional guarantees https://t.co/E2fnSAOReJ

[Kurds on X @kurdX_]

On September 2 1979, Iranian state forces and government-backed militias surrounded the Kurdish village of Qarna in East Kurdistan. Armed men entered the village and launched a systematic slaughter of the entirely unarmed Kurdish population. Within hours, Iran’s forces butchered sixty-eight Kurdish civilians, including women, children, and elderly men, using knives and rifles. The village elders were executed directly outside their homes as they tried to protect their families.

This pre-planned massacre was used by Iran to terrorize Kurdish rural communities and force them into submission.

[Rojhelat Info @RojhelatInfo_En]

Pakhshan Azizi at Imminent Risk of Execution

With the growing number of political executions in Iran and the continuing wave of death sentences, concerns over the fate of Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi have sharply increased.

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld her death sentence, raising fears that her execution could be carried out at any moment.

[Rojîn Mûkrîyan @RojinMukriyan]

Can democracy be established through war, or is it a process built through grassroots struggle?

Is the 2026 Iran war truly about human rights and democracy, or about the imperial ambitions of the U.S. and Israel?

In my new piece for @the_amargi, with comments from Nastaran Saremy and Dr. Amin Sharifi Isaloo, I examine the politics behind promises of “help” to Iranian protesters and ask whose interests such help ultimately serves.

Read the full piece in the link below

https://t.co/bqrlyTNjLD

[نوال السعداوي @NawalElSaadawi1]

"الوطن حيث يكون الحب وتكون الحرية، أما حيث يوجد الخوف فتكون الغربة دون أدنى شك".

#نوال_السعداوي

[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

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[Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain @FuadShilan]

Looking forward to presenting at the Conference: Refusal(s) and Kurdish Literature at the University of Connecticut on 21 May. My paper, “Against Silence: Kurdish Women’s Poetry as Resistance and Remaking,” examines the women who wrote when silence was demanded of them.