By Michael Luongo
September 18, 2007 Sept. 19
(Bloomberg) --
Liquor-shop windows gleam at night with the amber glow of whiskey bottles. Women sport high heels, tight pants and hair unveiled. There's a freer spirit in Suleymania, the once and maybe future cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban built Suleymania in 1784 as ``a place where Kurdish culture could flourish,'' Kurdish Cultural Minister Falakaddin Kakeyi told me. Now, Kakeyi says, this city of 800,000 in northern Iraq 's autonomous region of Kurdistan serves as a cultural beacon for the estimated 26 million Kurds scattered throughout Iraq , Turkey , Syria , Armenia and other places, the world's largest ethnic group without a country.
September 18, 2007 Sept. 19
(Bloomberg) --
Liquor-shop windows gleam at night with the amber glow of whiskey bottles. Women sport high heels, tight pants and hair unveiled. There's a freer spirit in Suleymania, the once and maybe future cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban built Suleymania in 1784 as ``a place where Kurdish culture could flourish,'' Kurdish Cultural Minister Falakaddin Kakeyi told me. Now, Kakeyi says, this city of 800,000 in northern Iraq 's autonomous region of Kurdistan serves as a cultural beacon for the estimated 26 million Kurds scattered throughout Iraq , Turkey , Syria , Armenia and other places, the world's largest ethnic group without a country.
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