#silemani

[naxosh]

folkloric group at maktabî konî câran, silêmanî. 1959 -- from mamosta omer’s archive

maktabî konî câran [maktab = school | konî câran = old times] was a school meant to preserve the old kurdish culture which was slowly losing popularity at the time. on the walls of the school were old types of jewelry, shoes, and dresses.

[naxosh]

kurdish women wearing serperçem with lagîre (coins on the side). silêmanî. southern kurdistan. 1950s-1970s.

serperçem is a very silêmanî headwear. mainly women from the area, and sometimes near halabja, wear it.

[naxosh]

silêmanî region in 1959 -- from mamosta omer’s archive.

footage of a seyran [picnic outing] in the small town of pîremagrûn, at the foot of pîremagrûn mountain a couple of miles away from dûkan lake.

this particular seyran included a live-action play [shown in the last gif] that depicted kurdish heroes like qazî mihemmed, kawa the blacksmith (from the newroz epic), and others.

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[i-am-kurd]

Naanawaxana in Silemani

Naan, the main Kurdish bread, is eaten with every meal, almost any kind of food. There are naan tandoors in almost every neighborhood, people go and get fresh bread every day, and 8 large pieces of naan costs about 75 cents. The tandoor is made up of a special kind of stone, and is on the whole day. These men that work in the naan shops work non stop all day long

Working in a bakery, or naanawaxana, is hard work. Many of the workers have their hair burned off their arms from the being so close to the heat of the tandoor. Usually 4 or 5 men work in those shops. One mixes the dough, one kneads the dough, one forms it into balls, one shapes it and stretches it, and the other takes it out of the tandoor. Some of these jobs can be combined, in order to save some money for the shop.

Here is a short video of a traditional naan bakery tanoor:

http://youtu.be/P3YDeaG-5TA

[kurdistania]

Sulaymaniyah | Silêmanî | سلێمانی

Happy 227th Birthday, Silêmanî (Sulaiamniya)!

From 30-days.net

Sulaimaniya is one of the newer cities in northern Iraq. It was founded in 1785 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha and is named after Sultan Suleiman (the Islamic name for Solomon) the Magnificent), who lIraked the Ottoman Empire to the height of its power. Sulaimaniya is situated near the Iranian border, with a population of approximately 800,000 inhabitants.

From Wikipedia:

Sulaymaniyah (Kurdish: سلێمانی / Silêmanî, Ar: السليمانية) is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot and dry summers and very cold winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the historic capital of the Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.

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kurdish Folkloric music group/ Song: By Kîjan Îbrahîm Xeyat/ silemani