I Am Sam - Kurdish

It means having a passport that doesn’t match your heart. Being Kurdish means being part of a family that stretches across mountains and borders and generations. I can walk into a Kurdish café in London, Berlin, Nashville, or Stockholm — and within five minutes, someone has offered me tea and asked whose son I am.

“Oh, so you speak… Kurdish? Is that like Arabic?” i am sam kurdish

“Wait, are you guys the ones with the mountain guerrillas?” It means having a passport that doesn’t match your heart

Let me start with something simple: my name is Sam. I drink coffee in the morning, scroll through my phone too much, and get annoyed when it rains on my commute. On paper, I’m just another guy trying to get through the week. scroll through my phone too much