In 1988, hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled northern Iraq as Saddam Hussein’s armies hunted them down. Many ended up in Nashville, making this southern city home to the largest Kurdish community in America. (2/3)

The Country In Our Hearts is a new, four-part @wpln.bsky.social
series — launching on June 5.

I follow one family’s epic journey from Kurdistan to Nashville.

Across centuries, across continents, across generations, this is a story about a people’s fight to exist. (1/3)