The Yazidi Academy (German: Jesidische Akademie) is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany.
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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.[1] 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.[2] It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers.[3]
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