The Kirkuk Culture House has organized the Kirkuk Citadel cultural fair which was opened on Saturday, June 15. The head of the Kirkuk Authors Union, Muhammad Khidr told Kirkuk Now “The exhibition was finally held after several postponements, as it was originally set to be held in May.” “More than 30 titles from the authors [...]
The latest play of the Ashti Theatre Team of Kirkuk under the name of Citadel of Black Spectacles is to be performed in Kirkuk soon. The Citadel of Black Spectacles was written by Aziz Omer and will be directed by Nazhad Najm, with a group of young actors of Kirkuk playing the different roles in [...]
For the first time in the region, the preaching of the Friday prayers will be done in English in one of the mosques of Sulaymaniah of Iraqi Kurdistan. The public relations officer of the Ministry of Endowment of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Mariwan Naqshbandi stated “The ministry has decided that the Friday prayer preaching should [...]
The cultural carnival with the name Kirkuk Writes, Kirkuk Reads which was planned to start on Wednesday, May 1 was postponed due to security issues, according to Muhammad Khidir, the head of the Kirkuk Authors Syndicate. Muhammad Khidir told Kirkuk Now “The security issues in the city forced us to postpone the carnival for more [...]
The Kirkuk Cultural Directorate is organizing various activities at a festival which is set to take place on World Theatre Day. Six teams are to participate in the festival which is being organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government on March 27, the designated World Theatre Day since 1961. Muhammad Saeed, [...]
The Kirkuk culture house held celebrations for the 102nd anniversary of Turkmen journalism on February 28. Journalist Firas Hamdan told Kirkuk Now, “The celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the Turkmen journalism was held under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and the Kirkuk branch of the Iraqi Union of Journalism.” The head of [...]
While more than 1,600 recordings of Kurdish and Turkmen artists and musicians are currently archived by al-Iraqia television, their return for Kirkuk television is being demanded. The former director of Kirkuk television, Hashim Jabari, told Kirkuk Now “Currently, there a lot of art archives of the Kurdish and Turkmen artists and musicians being archived by [...]
Kirkuk city journalist Shallaw Muhammad has refused to receive an award from the International Media Organization for Journalists’ Rights as he was not allowed to deliver a speech. Shallaw Muhammad told Kirkuk Now that on the demand of the International Media Organization for Journalists’ rights, he was invited to travel to Turkey on October 26. [...]
The problems facing women will be the main topic on the third day of the convention for the disputed areas of the world, according to a participant of the convention. The convention is being held in Kirkuk and on the third day of the event tomorrow, the focus will be on the problems of the [...]
An institute for computer sciences has been opened by the Ministry of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government for the graduates of the third stage of elementary schools in Kirkuk. Parwin Muhammad, head of the education committee of the Kirkuk Provincial Council told Kirkuk Now exclusively “The institute has opened by the decision of [...]
