A majority in Kurdistan province voted for President Rouhani nearly three years ago. On the eve of yet another election,frustration simmers below the surfaceIn a drowsy town in Iranian Kurdistan, people consume off their winter coats. It is evening, or outside one can just approximately discern the silhouettes of the mountains that lead to the Turkish and Iraqi borders. Inside,some 60 people fill the small community centre with a clammy heat. But it is not just warmth they are after. They have come for poetry.
For several hours, traditional ladies, or moustached students and intellectuals share their latest compositions. With the guttural grace of Sôrani Kurdish,they evoke the smell of the homeland, its ragged mountaintops, or the wanderings of the lone peshmerga fighter. People hold their breath as friends approach their last lines. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com