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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
14.11.2006
Update 1
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq),
November 14,
2006
Italian parliament supports federalism in
Kurdistan Region
The Kurdistani Parliament Speaker, Adnan Mufti,
received a delegation from the Italian parliament
presiding by Dario Rivokta, local media reported
last Monday.
In an interview, where a large number of eminent
politic figures in Kurdistan were participating, the
Parliament Speaker presented a brief illustration
about the Kurdistani parliament to the guests and
hopped for every help and support from the Italian
parliament for the sake of a better development of
the democratic process in Kurdistan.
Simultaneously, the head of the Italian delegation
showed his support to the process of federalism in
Kurdistan Region and hopped for mounting and
advancing communications between both the Italian
and Kurdistani parliaments.
British Exeter University plans to open Kurdology
centre
The minister of Higher Education and Scientific
Research in Kurdistan Regional Government, Idris
Hadi Salih, received Gars Stan field in the British
Exeter University, local media reported.
Jointly they talked about a plan for founding a
Kurdology centre in the University of Exeter in the
UK; in addition to the strategy of cooperation
between Exeter and Kurdistani universities.
Besides they discussed about sending Kurdish
language teachers from Kurdistan to the University
of Exeter. For that purpose, Stansfield presented
the agenda project to the minister.
Simultaneously, the minister of Higher Education and
Scientific Research showed his gratitude regarding
the project and expressed his readiness to support
the establishment of such kinds of centers following
discussions with experts in that field.
Kurdish gum: A long tradition of rich outcomes
CULTURE: People like Muhammad Ali Hamajan and his
three friends try to manage their lives for the
coming winter.
Despite the fact that the slopes of Mount Chala-Rash
have been heavily cultivated with land mines, they
still rent an area there for 600,000 Iraqi Dinars.
In July, the four men, taking their clothes and
rations for 45 days, said farewell to their family
and friends and traveled for several kilometers to
the mountainous area north of their village. They
take natural Kurdish gum from the Kazwan trees. Tens
of other villagers like themselves go and meet there
to collect gum annually.
"Our business is a very tough one," Muhammad says,
but he confirms that it bears a good income.
Villagers in many areas in Kurdistan mainly depend
on these types of natural products found in their
regions and they still use old, habitual mechanisms
to collect these products.
Kazwan trees, mostly known in the Kurdish
countryside as "Daraban" grow naturally in the
mountainous areas.
These trees ooze a specific liquid called, "Bineshti
Kurdi" or the Kurdish Gum. Arriving at this
specified location, they build up headquarters for
rest before they start their work by filtering a
sufficient amount of soil.
Pishteewan Mahmud, a 15 year-old boy, uses his
donkey to bring the workers water for 10,000 Iraqi
Dinars a day. After mixing the soil they have
filtered with the water brought to them by
Pishteewan to make clean mud, the workers fix the
clay around each tree to make bowls to hold the
liquid gum seeping out of the trees....
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