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Cultural festival in Kurdistan to group
hundreds of Arab cultural figures
18.4.2006
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Kurdistan Cultural Festival
April 22-30, 2006
BAGHDAD, April 18 (KUNA) -- The northern
province of Kurdistan is due to witness later this
month a cultural festival expected to group hundreds
of Arab cultural figures, in a much-needed
distraction from the bleak political and security
conditions that have overshadowed positive and
recreational aspects of living in this long
tormented nation.
The week-long cultural event, due to attract
prominent cultural figures from various Arab
countries including Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia
will be the first non-governmental cultural activity
since toppling Saddam Hussein's regime of
dictatorship, during which such events were
predominated with placards and rhetoric glorifying
the ruler.
Abed Al-Zahra Zaki, the managing director of the
Cultural Al-Mada Establishment, also a locally
eminent media figure, said in an interview with this
correspondent of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the
planned activities, due between April 22 and 30,
would be held in Kurdistan, the northern cities of
Erbil, Duhouk and Al-Sulaimaniyah. Previous rounds
of this regular event had been held in the Syrian
capital, Damascus.
Al-Mada, that was active in exile during era of the
toppled regime, had originally planned to hold the
activities in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, but decided
to shift the works to the northern part of the
country, where security is much more stable than the
greater Baghdad region.
Zaki said the works will draw more than 70
well-known Arab intellectual figures, along with 100
Iraqi writers living in Europe, the United States
and Australia, in addition to some 500 Iraqi
authors, artists, narrators and poets residing in
Iraq.
The festival will include diverse activities
including folkloric shows by national troupes,
plays, concerts, poetis soires and display of
formative art and caricature works in addition to
cultural lectures.
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