Meet Naaz, The Singer-Songwriter Blending Dutch And Kurdish Identities
On her second EP, The Beautiful Struggle, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter, whose Kurdish Muslim parents fled their home during the Gulf War, bridges her Kurdish and Dutch identities.
In her music video for "Up to Something," Naaz Mohammad sits down to a sprawling meal on the floor. She's surrounded by her elders — Kurdish men dressed in traditional clothing — and notably, Naaz sits at the head of the table. The video makes a statement.
"Often the men are sitting down, and then the women are covered and they're getting the food and preparing the food and cleaning everything up," says Naaz, who goes by only her first name on stage. "And of course, things have changed a lot, but it used to be like that. And
