I Am Sam Kurdish [updated] ✪

I smiled that night. Because that is the Kurdish superpower: smiling when the world denies your existence. means I have learned to hold two truths at once. I am modern, educated, and fluent in four languages. But I also know the 40 names for a mountain peak in Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish dialect). I can code in Python, but I can also ride a horse bareback like my grandfather did before the chemical gas fell on Halabja.