CULTURE

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• A woman’s antiques may become a museum 

  Xezal called on women who like her have collected antiques and saved them from DAESH violence to ask the authorities to open a museum for the cultures of the region.
• The Pomegranate Festival: An ancient tradition 

  Yarsan is one of the oldest syncretic religious beliefs in Kurdistan.
• Kurdish Film Days in Barcelona attracted big crowd 

  The Kurdish film and documentaries selected for the Barcelona initiative were followed by a large audience.
• First Music Festival in Manbij 

  The First Manbij Music Festival has kicked off Monday morning.
• Kobane International Film Festival: Last days to enter films 

  The call for entries to the Kobane International Film Festival closes on 25 October.
• Interview with Elam Tamil writer V.I.S. Jayapalan 

  "I strongly stood for the self-determination of the Eelam Tamils, and in opposing the national oppression and the massacres levied out to the Tamils by the state."
• Historical sites destroyed by DAESH 

  Hesekê has many historical monuments and sites.
• Yellow Envelope, a book by former IHD chair Akin Birdal 

  The International Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book fair, opened its doors to publishing houses and visitors for the 70th year. 
• Literature Festival Osman Sabri ends in Qamishlo 

  This year, the festival was held in the Mihemed Shêxo Center for Culture and Arts, promoted by the Qamishlo Canton Literary Committee and lasted three days.
• First art exhibition opened at Kobanê Museum  

  There are 39 paintings telling the story of the war lived by the city and its heroic resistance.
• Saz courses in Shengal 

  Shengal Culture and Art Center continues its activities. 
• Kobane International Film Festival: Call for entries 

  The Kobane International Film Festival (KIFF) will take place from 13 to 19 November in the city of Kobane, whose heroic stance and victory against the Islamic State is renown worldwide.
• Second Osman Sabri Culture and Art Festival kicked off 

  Sponsored by Mihemed Şêxo Culture and Art Center in Qamishlo, the Second Osman Sabri Culture and Art Festival kicked off on Thursday.
• Cultural and Art Centre opened in Zirgan 

  The Zirgan Culture and Art Center was inaugurated with a ceremony organized by Jazira Region Culture and Art Committee.
• Mem û Zîn: An epic of love 

  People flock to the grave of the two lovers from the XV century.
• Sulaymaniyah International Film Festival kicks off today 

  The third edition of the Sulaymaniyah International Film Festival is kicking off today.
• Artists from Afrin to open exhibition in Shehba 

  Many artists and painters have been forced to leave Afrin after the Turkish attacks and invasion and found shelter in Shehba.
• Great interest in the book fair in Amed 

  110,000 people visited the sixth book fair in Amed.
• How an Armenian cemetery became a public toilet 

  In summer 2017, the state-appointed trustee in Van’s Edremit district had a public toilet built on an Armenian cemetery. Despite the decision of the Ministry of Culture, the toilets have not been demolished until today.
• Turkey jails award winning director 

  Giyasettin Şehir, who was awarded the Best Director prize at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, has been imprisoned.
• Rojava’s Kurdish women-led revolution told in film 

  Arta Fil has produced a film about women’s role in the Rojava Revolution.
• Organized cultural robbery in Afrin 

  The occupiers of Afrin have now assigned a unit to locate and rob historic cultural assets in Afrin.
• Rojava experience lands to Terra Madre 

  Terra Madre will bring 5,000 delegates from 160 countries, over 800 exhibitors, 300 Slow Food Presidia and 500 food communities from the Terra Madre network to Turin (Piedmont, Italy).
• Cineforum in Suleymaniya to honour Yılmaz Güney 

  A film forum was organized in Suleymaniya to mark the 34th anniversary of the death of Yılmaz Güney, the great master of Kurdish cinema. 
• Great Kurdish director Yılmaz Güney remembered in Paris 

  The ceremony took place at the grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery where the great Kurdish film director has been buried.