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Rudaw Net
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Rudaw Net
Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicks off in Berlin
Also in Culture I don't want a celebration Sweden Kurdish magazine aims to promote Kurdish literature Young people showcase musicial skills in Shingal Kurdish photographer showcasing kolbars wins World Press award A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish Arts and Culture Festival kicked off in Berlin on Friday, this year focused on the future of Kurds in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. 'The festival this year comes with the fall of Assad's regime, and we wanted to focus on this as it marks a new era in Syria and Rojava [northeast Syria],' festival director Maxim Issa told Rudaw's Diaspora program that aired on Friday. Over the festival weekend, Kurdish and German youth will engage in discussions, showcase their work, introduce their businesses, prepare traditional Kurdish cuisine, and perform traditional folk dances. Kurds from the diaspora and other ethnicities, including Arabs and Assyrians, are attending the festival this year, according to Issa. Gunay Darici, managing director of the education non-profit Yekmal Association, said events like this festival give Kurds a platform to express themselves without the restrictions that they would face in their home countries. 'In the diaspora, we can practice cultural and political work more effectively,' she said, noting that in Turkey's southeastern Kurdish areas, 'there is no freedom for associations.' The festival, titled 'Turning Point in Syria - A New Future for the Kurds,' will run through Monday. Germany is home to a large Kurdish diaspora community of at least 1.3 million, according to official government figures, making it the largest Kurdish community in Europe.
Rudaw Net
19-03-2025
- Health
- Rudaw Net
Cancer hospital to be opened in Mosul
Also in Iraq Iraq's Sadr condemns renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza Several Iraqi soldiers injured in Shingal clashes: Lawmaker Iraqi FM deplores Israeli attacks on Gaza, confirms clear 'Zionist' threats to Iraq Kurdish farmer released on bail after dispute with Iraqi soldier A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq is set to open a hospital specialized in cancer treatment in the northern city of Mosul in Nineveh province, a member of the provincial council said. Ahmed Dubardani, a member of the Nineveh Provincial Council's health committee, told Rudaw that the hospital is in its final stages and is 'scheduled to be handed over by the implementing company next month and officially opened.' He said that the hospital has 100 beds and is equipped with advanced medical equipment, and it will also reduce the pressure on the Kurdistan Region's hospitals. 'The opening of the hospital will reduce pressure on the Kurdistan Region and other provinces, and reduce the burden on the people, as they had to travel a long distance for treatment which required a lot of expense,' Dubardani said. As cancer rates rise in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, there is a shortage of treatment facilities. In Sulaimani province, Hiwa Hospital is the only facility offering cancer treatment, drawing patients from across Iraq and the Kurdish regions of Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Statistics from the Kurdistan Region's health ministry in November revealed that cancer rates in the Region have more than doubled over the last decade. Experts have blamed worsening air pollution in the country as the primary cause of high cancer rates.
Rudaw Net
19-03-2025
- Politics
- Rudaw Net
Iraq's Sadr condemns renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza
Also in Iraq Several Iraqi soldiers injured in Shingal clashes: Lawmaker Iraqi FM deplores Israeli attacks on Gaza, confirms clear 'Zionist' threats to Iraq Kurdish farmer released on bail after dispute with Iraqi soldier PM Sudani, Turkish energy minister discuss Kurdish oil exports A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday condemned the renewed Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip which have killed more than 400 and injured hundreds, warning that Israel aims to eventually reach Iraq. He added, 'Many have chosen to remain silent, merely watching as Gaza's martyrs—its children and women—fall to Zionist-American terrorist missiles or perish from hunger and thirst due to a relentless international siege, devoid of any humanitarian or legal deterrent,' Sadr said in a statement. He voiced his concern that Israel wants to eventually advance towards Iraq. 'All of this will ultimately lead to the sale of Palestine once again, allowing Zionism to expand effortlessly into Islamic and Arab lands—with assistance from various sides—so that Israel may reach the Iraqi borders it has long sought,' he said. 'By then, regret will be of no use.' The Palestinian health ministry reported on Tuesday that 429 Palestinians had been killed and 528 others injured since the beginning of the renewed Israeli operations, which marked a significant setback for the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants. On Tuesday, the Iraqi foreign ministry slammed the renewed Israeli operations in Gaza and urged the international community to act swiftly against the attacks. Baghdad also reiterated its 'unwavering support' to the Palestinian people. Hamas, which governs Gaza, announced on Tuesday that four of its government officials were killed in the latest round of violence, describing the Israeli attacks as a unilateral cancellation of the ceasefire. The ceasefire went into effect in mid-January, following 15 months of war between the two sides which began after Hamas launched a large-scale incursion into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,170 people, according to Israeli figures. Israel responded with a massive offensive in Gaza, killing more than 46,000 people, mostly Palestinian civilians, according to the Palestinian health ministry. In a statement, Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'and his extremist government' of 'making a decision to overturn the ceasefire agreement, exposing prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate,' referring to people captured in southern Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks. Of the 251 people seized and taken into Gaza during the October 7 attacks, more than 130 hostages have been released. The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of at least 40 others. Fewer than half of the remaining 59 hostages are believed to be alive, according to the Israeli government.
