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30/09/2012 13:40
By Bedran Ahmed Habeeb* AKnews will stop broadcasting and at the time of writing these words it has already been shut down. I'm deeply sorry that due to heavy financial burden, we had to close down AKnews. During my carrier I have worked in many cultural foundations and established many by myself. Among all the foundations I established, I...
Iraqi Labor Ministry to fund small projects
29/09/2012 09:27
BAGHDAD, Sept.29 (AKnews)- In the coming few days, Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs will launch the small loan fund according to which unemployed will be given 20m IQD for each small project they propose. Abdulla Lami, media advisor at the Ministry, the government has allocated the fund under law no.10 of 2012.The fund will be based in...
Iran exported good woth of $2.4b to Iraq in five months
28/09/2012 09:21ERBIL, Sept.28 (AKnews)- As of March 20, Iran has exported goods worth of $2.4b to Iraq, Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA) said.The agency cited Majid Qorbanifaraz, the chief for Iraq's trade affairs in the Trade Development Organization of Iran that $375m of the exports in the meantime were trough the Kurdistan province of Iran. ...
Iraq crude oil output risen to highest level since 1979, says report
27/09/2012 10:58
ERBIL, Sept.27 (AKnews)- Iraq’s crude oil production has reached the highest level since 1979, according to a report published by Bloomberg yesterday.The news agency cited Oil Ministry sources saying the output has hit 3.328 million barrels a day (bpd), of which 2.484 million bpd are exported from Basra.The report did not provide figures...
Iraq to strengthen ties with Finland
27/09/2012 02:31ERBIL, Sep. 26 (AKnews) – The Iraqi government has send an official delegation to Finland to sign an agreement with country to strengthen bilateral ties. The delegation, is headed by the Trade Minister Khairulah Hasan, includes a number of Iraqi government advisers. The delegation is expected to sign a cooperation protocol where...
Kurdistan and USAID sign $18m agreement
26/09/2012 07:52ERBIL, Sept.26 (AKnews)- Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ministries of health and planning and US Agency for International Development signed an agreement for constructing 57 health bases across Kurdistan.The agreement was signed yesterday in Divan Hotel in Erbil at the presence of representatives from both ministries and the US agency.Aram...
Iraq and South Africa vow to develop relations
25/09/2012 19:51ERBIL, Sep. 25 (AKnews) – Iraq and South Africa vowed to develop relations as they signed a cooperation agreement on Monday. The agreement was signed by Iraqi Trade Minister Khairullah Hassan on behalf of the Iraqi government. A delegation headed by the Minister is also expected to visit the African country in the near future....
Kurdistan govt. reimburses returned Kurdish refugees
25/09/2012 09:32ERBIL, Sept.25 (AKnews)- Some 200 families from the Kurdistan Region who returned home after spending 16 years in Iran, Turkey and Syria as refugees, were each allotted 20 million IQDs (approx. 16,000) yesterday. Shaker Yasin, immigrants' chief of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said the families had left for the neighboring countries...
Kurdistan Region's Minister of Electricity calls on Iranian companies to invest in the Region
23/09/2012 14:11ERBIL, September 23 (AKnews) – Kurdistan Region's Minister of Electricity urged Iranian companies to make investment and participate in new high quality projects in the region. Yassen Shekh Abubakir made this announcement at his office when he met with Iranian Consul to Kurdistan Region Sayd Uzim Husseni and a...
Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange For Week Ending Sep. 20
23/09/2012 13:20The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,412 / $1,527, -0.1% (weekly change). The number of weekly traded shares was 6.4bn and the weekly trading volume was ID12.7bn ($10.6mn). Best Performers - Weekly Code Price (ID) Price Chn/w SNUC 2.110...
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The problem with the publication of Kurdish books is getting them out to the people who are yearning to read them. There are few methods of distribution to provide literature for the readers. Libraries, book shops and kiosks are present in some towns, but these don’t exist everywhere. Even in the big cities, the libraries are in the wrong place and there is a lack of proper halls for book fairs.
Despite many efforts, the books never find their way to the right people - books and right readers, like old stories of the lover and the one he longs for, are destined to remain estranged.
But this will not be so for much longer. Aras Publishers have finally found a solution to this perennial problem through launching a mobile bookshop to deliver books to the places where they have failed to reach before. The mobile bookshop is a 15-meter bus, the inside of which is an Aladdin’s cave for book-lovers, holding thousands of titles.
The book bus will strip away the old problems of getting literature to the masses. The Aras bus will come to wherever you are – truly it is a revolution of the Kurdish enlightenment.
