Riza Talabani

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Sheikh Riza Talabani (Raza)
شێخ ڕەزای تاڵەبانی
A statue of Sheikh Riza Talabani, in Sulaymaniyah (Iraq)
A statue of Sheikh Riza Talabani, in Sulaymaniyah (Iraq)
Born1835
Kirkuk, Ottoman Empire
Died1910
Sulaymaniyah
Pen nameRiza Talabani
OccupationPoet
NationalityOttoman Empire
Period(1835) – (1910)
GenreSatire, Ribaldry, Flyting and Creative Insults

Sheikh Riza Talabani (

Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic. Most of his poetry consists of Satire, Ribaldry, Flyting
and creative insults.

The poet in one of his famous

As a young man of age twenty-five or so, the poet went to the

Emirate of Sharazur to visit The Country of the Rom. In 1879, when the Ottoman Empire annexed the Wilayah of Sharazur to the Wilayah of Mosul, Riza expressed his sadness and disappointment in a poem, in Turkish, in which he told the people that Mosul had now become the capital of their Wilayah and Nafi’i Effendi was the Wali.[5][6]

Riza Talabani is one of the foremost Kurdish poets. To date, seven editions of his poetry have been published: in

Arbil
in 2000.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Şêx Riza Talebanî" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  2. ^ "شێخ ڕەزای تاڵەبانی، شاعیری ڕەخنەگر و قسە خۆش و خاوەن هەڵوێستی جوامێرانە". Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  3. ^ Sheikh Raza Talabani. "The Lover's Malady". iwp.uiowa.edu.
  4. .
  5. ^ Shene Mohammed (8 November 2016). "A Trip to Translate Poetry". The American University of Iraq Sulaimani.
  6. ^ Fair Observer (16 June 2013). "Translating Kurdish Poetry: Not for the Faint of Heart". www.fairobserver.com.
  1. The Displacement of the Population of the Kirkuk Region, Dr. Nouri Talabany at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)