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Diary Marif

Diary Marif is a Vancouver-based Kurdish writer and award-winning journalist born in Iraq. He holds a master’s degree in history from Pune University in India (2013). His journalism has appeared in national and international outlets, including Rabble, Canadian Dimension, CBC Arts, Culturico, The Amargi, and The Canadian Encyclopedia. Since 2018, Marif has centred his creative work on memoir and personal narrative, exploring his experiences as a child of war. He has written chapter books for multiple projects and has appeared as a storyteller in public spaces. He received an Honourable Mention for the 2022 Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction, is a 2025 recipient of the Yosef Wosk Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellowship, and was awarded PEN Canada’s 2025 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize.

Artist Harem Jamal sits in the art gallery hall surrounded by portraits of kids' feet, bare and clothed, as symbols of the difficult journeys refugee kids make.
March 16, 2023
Arts & Culture/Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

Iraqi immigrant depicts horrors of war, refugee childhood through striking exhibition in Burnaby B.C.

Harem Jamal spent his childhood years in refugee camps. Now he uses art to process the trauma.

A protest against the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs
February 24, 2023
Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative/Politics

‘A place to build a future’: Uyghur Canadians optimistic about move to resettle 10,000 refugees

“Canadian leaders have shown that they believe that the lives of these people matter and must be protected."

January 11, 2023
Diaspora Affairs/Local Journalism Initiative/News

Iranian Canadians rally to remember victims of Flight PS752

On the third anniversary of the plane catastrophe, the Iranian diaspora still hold out hope to find justice.

Karima Baloch
January 6, 2023
Diaspora Affairs/Local Journalism Initiative

Karima Baloch’s death remains a mystery

Two years after international activist Karima Baloch's death, questions surrounding what happened to her remain.

Kurdish journalists and critics
November 17, 2022
Immigration/News/Politics

Kurdish Canadians calling on Canada to stop Kurdish authorities’ repression of journalism 

Kurdish Canadian journalists, writers, and activists urge the Canadian government to intervene in Kurdistan's attack on freedom of the press. 

first and second generation immigrant families
October 27, 2022
Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative/Youth

Two different worlds: Conflict between first- and second-generation Canadians

Immigrant parents and children increasingly live in different cultural worlds, reports Diary Marif.

October 20, 2022
British Columbia/Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

YWCA Metro Vancouver: A Hub for Ukrainian Mothers

Ukrainian mothers fleeing war with Russia find support at the YWCA

photo gallery
October 7, 2022
Arts & Culture/British Columbia/Local Journalism Initiative

Photo gallery: A story of belonging and exclusion of immigrant women

A new exhibition charts the history of "belonging and exclusion" of immigrant women, at an Abbotsford, B.C., university campus.

Protesters in Ottawa demonstrate against Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
August 24, 2022
Diaspora Affairs/Local Journalism Initiative/Politics

Palestinians accuse Canada of having a double standard on Israel

Canada is silent on Israeli aggression in Palestine yet it’s quick to condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine, activists say

July 28, 2022
Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

Nowhere to call home for her and her children: Canada and the hopes of a Syrian refugee

Diyala Sulaiman, a 25-year-old Syrian woman, dreams of leaving the Iraqi refugee camp that she and her children have lived in for

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