Why is Kurdish Literature Rarely Translated? Published May 4th, 2021 - 04:40 GMT
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“Some youths watch football to escape this reality, while others read and write novels and books,” Sabah added.
Huda Kadhem waits anxiously for feedback on her first novel, scrutinised by a book club in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Erbil, where young authors are breathing new life into a centuries-old oral culture.
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“This is the first time my book is being critiqued,” the 17-year-old first-year medical student said.
“I learnt a lot about how to improve my writing and storytelling,” she said, adding that comments from other writers, readers and professors had given her “enormous encouragement” to continue.
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JOURNALISTS imprisoned in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq must be released, campaigners said today as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that a record number of media workers have been locked up this year.
According to the CPJ, 274 journalists and other media workers were jailed in 2020, beating the previous record of 272 set in 2016, many of them detained for covering political unrest or the Covid-19 pandemic.
The committee said that governments had used coronavirus as an excuse to delay trials and restrict visits to prisoners, while disregarding the increased health risk in jails – at least two journalists died after contracting the disease in custody.