APO Osman Sabri Literature Festival ends in Qamishlo

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Second APO Osman Sabri Culture and Art Festival kicked off

Sponsored by Mihemed Şêxo Culture and Art Center in Qamishlo, the Second APO Osman Sabri Culture and Art Festival kicked off on Thursday

Intellectuals and poets from all Western Kurdistan/Northern Syria as well as a lot of citizens attended the first day of the festival.

The event began with a minute silence. Hena Hena, co-chair of the Culture and Arts Council of the Jazira region, said that this year festival is dedicated to the Epochal Afrin Resistance.

Syrian Kurdish Writers' Union President Dilawar Zen reminded of the struggle of APO Osman Sabri

“APO Osman Sabri, - he said - has been imprisoned 18 times by the states of Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon: he has spent 12 years of his life in prison".

After the speeches, poets coming from various cities read their poems in Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac languages.

The preparation committee said that in the coming two days many short stories, poems and literary works written in Arabic, Kurdish and Syriac languages ​​will also compete in the festival.

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APO Osman Sabri Literature Festival 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

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The second edition of the literature festival named after the much loved, great Kurdish intellectual APO Osman Sabri, in Qamishlo ended after a series of events and awards.

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.

APO Osman Sabri’s life and struggle, poetry-story recitals in Kurdish and Arabic, poetry and story seminars, dengbêj and music performances, were part of the many events presented at the festival which ended with an award ceremony.

The festival was dedicated to the people and resisters of Afrin and Shehba struggle against the Turkish occupation.

The various awards granted by the festival were:

Kurdish short story: Neriman Evdikî, Mistefa Mistefa, Lem'a Elî

Poetry in Kurdish: Fatma Sîdo, mailsmail Heci Mûrad, Lewend Yusif

Kurdish article: Pêşeroj Cewherî

Arabic short story: Friday El Heyder, Ciwan Silo, Brahîm Elshaq

Arabic poetry: Xidir Hemadî bin Hemadî, Brahîm Berekat, Ehmed Yûsif, Mistefa Sîno

Arabic article: Xalis Misewer, Cemîla Mihemed, Reşîd Ebbas