H.E. Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister and president of the Kurdistan Film Commission Slemani, traveled to the Croisette to invite the world to the region and discuss the vision during a ...

It was dusk, and we were standing in his family’s small orchard on the outskirts of Slemani, a city known as the cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. I’d been granted a meeting later that ...

Five star hotel, Slemani Rotana, has announced a collaboration with Iraqi artist Tablochin in new initiative to engage more deeply in Iraqi culture and heritage. The art will include cutlery, plates, ...

The 24-year-old university student smiled as he left his parents’ home in Slemani, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, bought cigarettes, made a few phone calls. He and many of his friends were on summer ...

Kurdistan is comparatively progressive in this ... A mural along one of Slemani’s boulevards reads: “We are more powerful when we are equal.” Nevertheless, Raza’s work—which requires ...

The prime minister of the Kurdistan region, Masrour Barzani, denounced the latest assault on Twitter. "The mob attack on a young girl in Slemani yesterday, at a moment that should've been about ...

Meanwhile, Shallah Montero’s short film, “Papa’s Shadows,” is competing in the 2nd Slemani International Film Festival, ongoing in Iraqi Kurdistan until Oct. 7. “Don introduced me to ...

Kurdistan, a small semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq that has been surrounded by war throughout history, was in the Cannes spotlight on Wednesday, presenting its newly launched film ...