page_title: Yazidi Academy
hierarchical_section_title: Yazidi Academy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Zu Beginn des Gastvortrags mit anschließender DiskussionSituation der Eziden und anderer religiöser Minderheiten im Bezirk Ninive sprach Bernd Strauch, 1. Bürgermeister und Stellvertreter des Oberbürgermeisters von Hannover, ein Grußwort ...
context_page_description: The Yazidi Academy is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany.
  The organisation was founded in 2009, it concerns itself with the historical and current situation of the Yazidis. Since then, it has also published the German-language magazine Zeitschrift der Ezidischen Akademie. Forum für Diskussionsbeiträge zum Ezidentum. It also hosts the Yazidi Library that had been established in 2007.
  The Yazidi Academy is a member of the network of migrants initiatives MiSO. It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers.
context_section_description: The Yazidi Academy (German: Jesidische Akademie) is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany.
  The organisation was founded in 2009, it concerns itself with the historical and current situation of the Yazidis. Since then, it has also published the German-language magazine Zeitschrift der Ezidischen Akademie. Forum für Diskussionsbeiträge zum Ezidentum. It also hosts the Yazidi Library that had been established in 2007.
  The Yazidi Academy is a member of the network of migrants initiatives MiSO. It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers.
caption: Hannover's mayor Bernd Strauch welcoming Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh, at the Ezidische Akademie in 2014
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