Yazidi Academy

{{Short description|Organization based in Honover, Germany}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2017}}

File:Eziden und andere Minderheiten in Ninive (Gastvortrag), (016) Grußwort von Bernd Strauch, 1. Bürgermeister und Vertreter des Oberbürgermeisters von Hannover.jpg welcoming Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh, at the Ezidische Akademie in 2014]]

The Yazidi Academy ({{langx|de|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.{{cite web |publisher=Ezidische Akademie |title=About us |url=http://www.ezidische-akademie.de/en/about-us.html |access-date=4 November 2015}} 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.[http://www.misonetz.de/index.php?article_id=45 MiSO-Mitglieder stellen sich vor: Ezidische Akademie e. V.], MiSO-Netzwerk Hannover It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers.[http://www.ezidische-akademie.de/de/asylhilfe-niedersachsen.html Asylhilfe Niedersachsen], ezidische-akademie.de

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