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30/09/2012 13:17
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...
Prof. Dilani : Kurdish Diaspora is an important asset for the future of Kurdistan
17/09/2012 19:21Brussels, 17 Sep 2012 - The 2nd World Kurdish Congress (WKC) will be held in the capital of Kurdistan Region Erbil in October. The expectations for the congress are very high. Journalist Roni Alasor talks to Prof. Alan Dilani*, one of the first initiators and "father" of the World Kurdish Congress about goals of WKC and the expectation...
Rebuilding after Anfal
01/09/2012 15:11
By Judit Neurink The Anfal operation left many scars in Iraqi Kurdistan. Saddam’s operation to destroy Kurdish villages and their habitants, and thus break the resistance of the fighters, still has many effects even though almost 25 years have passed since the end of it.For those who do not know: during the seventies and the eighties...
Cherish the old stones
20/08/2012 10:13
By Judit Neurink My neighbor pulled down his house and is now building something new. The house cannot have been more than twenty years old - at the most. Yet this is the habit in Iraq: old is bad, new is nice. For that reason, hardly anything old is left. I come from a country where old buildings are...
The future of singing, music and freedom in Iraq is in the Kurdistan Region, says Ilham al-Madfei
06/08/2012 12:11
CAIRO, Aug. 5 (AKnews) - Iraqi artist and musician Ilham al-Madfei said that he had decided to transfer his work and residence from Jordan to the Kurdistan Region after staying away from home for 33 years. In an interview with AKnews in Cairo on the sidelines of his Ramadan ceremony for the Iraqi community he...
Let's watch out lest Kurds are hit
26/07/2012 15:36
*By Bedran Ahmed HabeebSyrian regime will not leave so easily. Still there are many cards for it to use before leaving. It looks like the leaders of the regime are quite certain that they should leave anyway, therefore, they want the maximum blood stream from the risen Syrian nation, before they leave. These leaders look at the majority of the...
When will the bubble burst?
21/07/2012 16:15
by: Judit Neurink *,,Why don't you buy a house in Kurdistan, in stead of paying such a high rent'', people have asked me. A good question, with rents in Erbil as high as 2000 dollars a month for a 3 bedroom apartment and 3000 and more for a villa. Yet buying might mean getting caught up in the bubble of Kurdistan's housing...
No extra lessons, pleas
15/07/2012 09:07
by: Judit Neurink *During Saddam Hussein, teachers in Iraq were paid so little that they made sure their students needed extra lessons, to be able to get some extra income. That time is past. And yet not completely.'My daughter has found a teacher to help her with maths', a friend of mine told me recently. I was surprised; I knew the...
Welcome returnees, don't be scared of them
07/07/2012 14:20
by: Judit Neurink*Holland wants to help asylum-seekers from Iraq who go back to their country voluntarily, with education and money. But only if Iraq agrees on taking people back. Up till now, the Kurds refused to allow for instance the Dutch to send their people back to Kurdistan. So they end up in Baghdad, when sent back.For many...
Khairallah Khairallah: Kurdish state will be established and Kurds know how to benefit from their experiences
05/07/2012 15:34
AMSTERDAM, July 5 (AKnews) - Lebanese writer and journalist Khairallah Khairallah said that the Kurdish state will be established and that the Kurdish people know how to benefit from their experiences, adding that this shows political maturity and a desire to adopt realism instead of slogans. Khairallah said in the interview with AKnews that the...
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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.
