{"id":2627,"date":"2023-02-26T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2023-09-17T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T00:19:52","slug":"silemani-home-to-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/silemani-home-to-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sil\u00eaman\u00ee, home to the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sil\u00eaman\u00ee, Home to Kurdish Culture<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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For more than 200 years, Sil\u00eaman\u00ee has been the regional home of Kurdish arts and culture, where numerous writers, musicians, and visual artists have lived and thrived. The city welcomes them: its streets are named after poets, and busts of writers line the city\u2019s oldest park. Here Sorani Kurdish has become a literary language. Sil\u00eaman\u00ee is home to several major publishing houses, sustaining a community of translators, editors, and publishers.<\/p>

The city hosts several major literary festivals. The annual Galawezh Festival<\/a>, founded in 1996, invites Kurdish, Arab, Persian, Turkish and Iraqi writers to showcase with their work. DidiMn<\/a> holds an annual conference on the arts. And the Sulaimani International Film Festiva<\/a>l puts Kurdish cinema on display.<\/p>

The city also has enough galleries and studios to draw painters, sculptors and graphic artists. So many creative people live here, among its 2.3 million inhabitants, that in 2019 UNESCO designated Sil\u00eaman\u00ee a City of Literature,<\/a> one of a global network of 246 cities significant for Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature, and Music.<\/p>

\u201cFor contemporary art, compared with the rest of Iraq, Sulaimaniyah is the best \u2026 and the scene is growing because there are many young people and activities.\u201d So says Shirwan Can, of the Paia agency in his home town.In Al-Monitor, Winthrop Rogers\u00a0explored<\/a> the promise but also the challenges that cultural creatives face in Sil\u00eaman\u00ee.<\/p>

Photos from the Facebook page of Sil\u00eaman\u00ee UNESCO City of Literature.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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