What do we want?
Spreading access to books, promoting reading and building a bridge between Kurdistan and Europe.
We receive books from various publishers in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Kurdish literature can be published uncensored. From Berlin we can then distribute the orders through postal services to all over Germany and Europe.
Our bookstore will initially offer the following topics:
Learning Kurdish: Various dictionaries and textbooks to learn a language that is banned in some countries.
Literature: Kurdish classics, recent novels and poetry by authors such as Bachtyar Ali, Sherko Bekas, Sherzad Hassan, Choman Hardi.
Children's books: Children's books for all ages. Crucial to help children in learning their mother tongue, to getting closer to their own culture and not losing it.
Philosophy: Various Kurdish magazines, essays as well as translations of important classical and contemporary authors of philosophy.
History: Books telling the history of Kurdistan.