Dereen Shirnekhi
Staff Columnist
dereen.shirnekhi@yale.edu
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DEREEN SHIRNEKHI
SHIRNEKHI: Listen up!

“What are your three desert island books?” I ask a friend in Donut Crazy at half past 11 p.m. on a Friday night that’s too […]

November 3, 2019

Anasthasia Shilov
DEREEN SHIRNEKHI
SHIRNEKHI: No friends but the mountains

Heval nin bes ciya. No friends but the mountains. It’s a slightly overused Kurdish proverb, somewhat melancholic, a little bit melodramatic and intended to convey […]

October 24, 2019