Slemani, founded in 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban, who named it after his father, Sleman Pasha, has always been the center of great historians, politicians, journalists, scholars, artists, singers, poets and writers such as Nali, Mahwi, Bekas and Piramerd. The city is the largest in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, with a population of 2,486,486 citizens and a total territory of 21,071 km2. Alongside
arts and culture, its primary industries are agriculture, education, healthcare,
and tourism, with developing fields of manufacturing and renewable energy.
Kashkul, with Slemani Governor, its Directorate of Culture, and major literary stakeholders in the city applied to designate Slemani as UNESCO’s Creative City of Literature. On October 31, 2019, UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network welcomed Slemani into a global network of 246 cities. The network covers seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music. The Creative Cities are working together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.
Our panel is now available on TikTok platform during the Shubak Festival in London. https://shubbakfestival.ticketco.events/uk/en/e/bringing_images_home__a_new_generation_of_poets_from_slemani
An Introduction:Throughout the twenty-four years since it was first founded, despite the political, economic,social crisis and all the other obstacles our culture has come up
Slemani City of Literature’s Poetry Selection Committee Meets to Select its Poets for World Translation Day.On Thursday, April 1st 2021, in a meeting arranged by
Join us for the University of Central Florida’s first virtual event of the Spring 2021 semester, on Friday, 26 March, 6:00-7:30 pm Sulaimani Time.“Old Fire
This film features specially commissioned poems from Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University, plus sister UNESCO Creative Cities, Granada
Bucheon City of Literature is delighted to announce an open call for the Bucheon Residency Program to offer two residencies for writers, translators and cartoonists
