Egyptian writer revives the first Kurdish newspaper

The first issue of Kurdistan Magazine was published in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday which was also the Kurdish Journalism Day, Egyptian journalist and writer Abdel Fattah who is a specialist in Kurdish affairs announced on Friday.

The Kurdistan Magazine is a new version of the first Kurdish newspaper published 124 years ago in Cairo.

Mr. Abdel Fattah said in his announcement that he wanted to celebrate the 124th anniversary of the publication of the first Kurdish newspaper by Prince Mikdad Medhat in his way and so he decided to republish the same magazine with the same name, on the same day, and the same place which is Cairo.

He also explained the issuance of the new magazine comes from his appreciation of the great Kurdish people, and faith in their legitimate rights and fair cause. 

Journalist Abdel Fattah wants the Kurdistan magazine to be the voice of the Kurds all over the world, expressing them, their civilization, history, ideology, literature, and art, and to be a bridge of communication with the Arab peoples, especially the Egyptian people.

Mr. Abdel Fattah founded the Cairo Center for Kurdish Studies in 2013 which is the first Arab and Egyptian studies center only in Kurdish affairs.

Kurdistan was the first Kurdish newspaper. It was first published on April 22, 1898, in Cairo, Egypt by Mikdad Midhat Bedirkhan, a member of the Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti. In four years, 31 issues were printed in cities such as Cairo, Geneva, London, and Folkestone. It was an opposition newspaper published in exile (outside the Ottoman Empire) and supported by the Committee of Union and Progress and was published in Constantinople after the Young Turk revolution in 1908.



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