Awena is a weekly independent Kurdish newspaper, published every Tuesday in

Sulaymaniyah Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, ...

Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of "Kurdistan" in Western Asia, which also inc ...

. Awena means “The Mirror” in Kurdish. The newspaper was founded by

Asos Ahmed Hardi ASOS or Asos may refer to: * Asos, a village in Greece * ASOS (retailer), a UK online fashion store * Association Sportive Oussou Saka, a Beninese football team * Automated Surface Observing System, a type of weather station * Air Support Operati ...

, former editor-in-chief of

Hawlati ''Hawlati'' ( Kurdish for "citizen") is an independent Kurdish newspaper, published in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan and London. Tariq Fatih is the owner of the paper. ''Hawlati'' is a biweekly newspaper issued by Ranj Publishing House, pub ...

after he clashed with the owner of Hawlati and resigned. Hardi is the director of the Awena (Mirror) Company, which publishes Awena. It began publication in January 2006. Hardi took most of his team with him from Hawlati. In 2008, Suzanne Fischer of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, was quoted as saying that Awena was the only truly independent newspaper in Iraqi Kurdistan, since it was the only one to have explained its business model. In 2009, the daily reported a circulation of 17,000.

External links

Awena website (Kurdish)

References

{{Reflist Newspapers published in Iraq Kurdish-language mass media Mass media in Sulaymaniyah Weekly newspapers 2006 establishments in Iraqi Kurdistan Publications established in 2006 Mass media in Kurdistan Region (Iraq)