Cizre & the Tigris

Have you ever imagined that a love story could become a city’s destiny? In Cizre, this question is spoken together with the names of Mem and Zin. Put into verse by Ahmed-i Hânî in the 17th century, this epic tells of two young people who fell in love in the palace of Cizre and could never be united amid jealousy and intrigue… Legend has it that after death the two lie side by side in the same earth.