by admin | Dec 10, 2019 | Our Work
pROTECTing Yazidi Music AMAR is working to record, protect and teach the unique music of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq. Part of the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, the project is helping to preserve and sustain this endangered music for future...
by admin | Aug 2, 2019 | UK Featured, UK News
Thousands of children from the religious minorities of northern Iraq were captured by ISIS in 2014. Since the military defeat of the group in the past year, some of these children have returned. They have been left traumatised by their experiences but face a host of...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | UK News
The AMAR-led initiative to bring to an end the horrors of religious persecution, which began with a series of high-level conferences in Windsor Castle, has now led to Baghdad. The November event, held over two days in the Iraqi capital, attracted more than 200...
by admin | Feb 18, 2019 | UK Featured, UK News
AMAR’s work with Yazidi women and girls has featured in one of the UK’s leading newspapers, the Daily Mail. Journalist Lena Corner travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to visit the IDP camps where AMAR works. She talked to some of the women there about how their lives have...
by admin | Aug 24, 2018 | UK Event, UK Featured, UK News
We are delighted to announce that His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, has agreed to continue his Patronage of AMAR. During his time as AMAR Patron Prince Charles has attended a number of AMAR’s milestone events. Last year he helped to bring our Silver...