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30/09/2012 12:27
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...
Iranian MEK organization dropped from US terror list
29/09/2012 09:53ERBIL, Sept.29 (AKnews)- The US has removed the dissident Iranian group Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) from its terror blacklist, according to a statement by the US State Department. The MEK led a guerrilla war against the US-backed Shah of Iran in the 1970s and also opposed Iran's clerical leaders who replaced the Shah. The organization had been...
Barham Saleh to represent Talabani in AKP conference
28/09/2012 10:11
ERBIL, Sept.28 (AKnews)- Barham Saleh, former Kurdistan premier and second deputy for General Secretary of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani, will attend Turkish ruling party's conference.Kurdish Xendan news agency, close to PUK, said that Saleh, accompanied by a delegation, will represent Talabani in AKP (Justice and Development...
Turkmens win ninth seat of IHEC commissioners' board
28/09/2012 08:30ERBIL, Sept. 28 (AKnews)- The ninth member of the commissioners' board at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) was allocated to a Turkman representative yesterday by vote of Iraqi MPs. Gulshan Wali Ali was elected by a majority vote as the ninth member in the board, said MP Shuwan Mohammed Taha from the Kurdistan Blocs Coalition...
Maliki says no to Turkish PM's invitation
27/09/2012 09:35
ERBIL, Sept.27 (AKnews)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turned down an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for visiting Ankara. Turkish NTV reported a few days ago that Erdoğan has invited Maliki to Ankara in a bid to mend the stained ties between the two countries. In an interview with...
Turkish PM: New talks with PKK possible
27/09/2012 09:19
ERBIL, Sept.27 (AKnews)- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pointed to the possibility of initiating new talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as there is an surge in violence in the country's southeast, Turkish Today's Zaman newspaper reported today. In recent years Turkish intelligence officials had contacts...
Majority of Kurds are for independence
27/09/2012 01:40ERBIL, Sep. 26 (AKnews) – The majority of the Iraqi Kurds support the proclamation of independence from Iraq, a new poll shows. The poll conducted by the Kurdistan Institute For Political Issues was released on Wednesday in a press conference in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region. The poll involved a...
Ninth member of commissioners' board to be elected Thursday
26/09/2012 08:12
ERBIL, Sept.26 (AKnews)- The ninth member of the commissioners' board at the Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq will be elected Thursday, said an MP.The MP who demanded anonymity said that the new commissioner will be voted to in the same session in which the MPs vote to the economic infrastructure bill. Last Monday the Council...
"Talabani will not visit Erbil today"
25/09/2012 10:17
ERBIL, Sept.25 (AKnews)- Iraq's President and General Secretary of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani will not visit Kurdistan Region's capital, Erbil, today, Kurdish Rudaw newspaper reported.Rudaw cited Saddi Ahmed Pira, chief of 3rd PUK Center, refuting the report. Yesterday PUK Politburo Spokesperson Azad Junidyani told...
Barzani reiterates right to self-determination for Kurdistan
23/09/2012 14:47ERBIL, Sep. 23 (AKnews) – President of Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani has said Kurdistan will not seek separation from Iraq as the Iraqi government sticks to the Constitution, but will maintain the right to choose whether to separate if otherwise happens. Barzani was speaking at the Centrist Democratic Conference in...
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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.
