iOS app · زانیاری

Every secret of Kurdistan,
at your fingertips.

Short, sourced and illustrated stories about Kurdish history, culture and figures. A minute each, in five languages.

58published stories
5languages
1 minper story
The Zanyari home screen

The guided tour

01

One story, one minute

Open the app and a story is waiting: short, sourced, illustrated. One commute later, you know something you didn't this morning.

02

Read, then dig

Every story links to its sources, its places and its neighbours. You come for one, you leave with five.

03

Kurdistan on a map

Every place mentioned is pinned. Amed, Lalish, Halgurd: what you read exists somewhere, and you can go there.

04

Test what stuck

Quizzes pick up what you've read. That's where skimming and remembering part ways.

A sample

A taste of what Zanyari tells

Seven stories drawn at random from fifty-eight. Draw again as often as you like.

The pomegranate of Helebce, queen of Kurdistan's orchards

1 min read

Supporters

Dema hespên serxweş: the Caméra d'Or speaks Kurdish (Cannes 2000)

2 min read

Sheikh Saîd Rises Up at Pîran, 13 February 1925

1 min read

Anfal, eight campaigns, February - September 1988

2 min read

Roboskî, 28 December 2011: 34 Kurdish villagers bombed

1 min read

Jîna Aminî, 16 September 2022: Jin Jiyan Azadî

2 min read

Helebce, 16 March 1988

2 min read

The feed

Places, lists, portraits

Beyond the stories, the app runs a feed: where to go, what to listen to, who to know.

Top

Top 5 songs that take us back to Kurdistan

To visit

Amna Suraka, the Red Security Museum

To visit

Bêxal Waterfall, Rewandiz

Five languages

Including the two that matter

Every story is translated into Kurmanji and Sorani. Few apps bother; it is the least one can do when the subject is Kurdistan.

Français English Deutsch Kurmancî سۆرانی

A minute a day, and Kurdistan starts to feel familiar.

Free. Supporters unlock the exclusive stories and the quizzes.

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