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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
19.11.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq),
November 19,
2006
Erbil hosts international short films festival in
December 2006
Erbil – The Iraqi Kurdistan city of Erbil will host
an international short films festival in
mid-December, a source at
Kurdistan culture ministry said on Saturday.
"The culture ministry in Kurdistan region would
organize this festival, where 25 productions of the
Kurdistan's cinema department will take part along
with 25 international short films from the United
States, Britain, France, Norway, Belgium and other
countries," Mr. Shakhwan Idris of the department
said yesterday.
Mr. Idris added that the festival would continue for
four days, after which winning movies will receive
awards of
appreciation.
Car bomb kills three at funeral in Iraq's Kirkuk
- Reuters
KIRKUK - Iraq, -- A suicide car bomb killed three
people and wounded 22 when it exploded near a
funeral procession in the northern Iraqi city of
Kirkuk on Sunday, police said.
The attack occurred on the same day as a car bomb in
Hilla, south of Baghdad, killed 22 people.
The former Iraqi president forced about 250,000
Kurdish residents to give up their homes to Arabs in
the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city and the region's
oil industry.
Kirkuk city is not under the full control of
Kurdistan Regional Government administration. A
referendum is to be held in late 2007 to decide
whether the oil-rich Kurdish province should be
annexed to the safe semiautonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
The Gelawej festival for cultural to start on
22.Nov.2006 in Sulaimaniyah
The 10th Gelawej Festival for cultural, and literary
to start in Sulaimaniyah city on 22 November under
the slogan (peace and freedom, creativity tent).
Irfan Ahmad, secretary in the administrative of
Gelawej cultural and literary center, that the
festival will held for a week and will be attended
by about 40 Kurdish, Arab and Turkey men of letters.
He pointed out that the festival includes two daily
meetings in the fields of poetry, stories and
literary research and intellectual property.
He added that awards will be given to the works that
win in the competition organized by the festival,
the value of awards for the 1st place will be 3
million dinars, the 2nd will win 2 million dinars
and the third is 1 million dinars.
"1USD = 1470 IQD.
He explained that a committees were formed to
evaluate the submitted works to the festival.
The Gelawej center for cultural, and literary was
founded in 1996 under the auspices of the office of
democratic organizations belongs to Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan (PUK) which is headed by Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani, with five branches in
several parts of the Kurdistan region, and has a
membership of about 600 Kurdish writers and men of
letters and issuing a monthly magazine entitled (New
Gelawej).
Gelawej is a Kurdish word means "morning star".
There were a magazine behalf Gelawej issued in the
1930s.
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