Coronavirus, war prompts northeast Syrian schools to go online - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Adam Lucente

Adam Lucente

May 11, 2020

Kurdish children look through a gate at a pre-school in Qamishli, Syria, March 6, 2019. Picture taken March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah - RC14F6F6D600 — Kurdish children look through a gate at a preschool in Qamishli, Syria, March 6, 2019. — REUTERS/Issam Abdallah

Syrian schools continue to struggle with Kurdish curriculum

Shivan Ibrahim

A Kurdish girl reads a book at a library in Kurdish-majority Qamishli in northeast Syria on January 11, 2017.
For years, Syria's Kurds were banned from using their language in official settings and prevented from learning it in schools or publishing magazines or books in the tongue.
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Authorities in northeast Syria struggle to impose Kurdish curriculum

Mohammed Hardan

Mohammed Hardan

After 52-year ban, Syrian Kurds now taught Kurdish in schools

Massoud Hamid

DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Turkey's war of attrition against Syria's Kurds

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture