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The Kurdish dubbing of Cinderella (2015) is a fascinating artifact because it reveals how a global media product is reshaped to fit a marginalized linguistic community’s worldview. Unlike dubbing for state languages (e.g., Turkish, Arabic, Persian), Kurdish dubbing often operates in a context of “translational activism”—where the very act of dubbing into Kurdish is a political statement of cultural survival. This paper explores three key areas of adaptation: