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  On March 24th Edwin Werner Park in Nashville, Tennessee filled with colorful Kurdish dresses, Kurdish music and elegant dancing. Celebrating the 2712th New Year; Kurds from

  International Crisis Group’s In Pursuit of Peace Award 2011/ New York . Rudaw columnist Namo Abdulla attended the ceremony and produced this video.

Here is the other Iraq, Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. One of the recently finished modern projects of this city is Majidi Mall, which is the largest shoping mall in Iraq. The existence of this westernized shoping mall highlits the safety and prosperty of Erbil in a country still in upheaval.

A business conference was held in Erbil's Rotana Hotel

An exhibition was held on April 6th at the French Cultural Center in Erbil

  Kurdistan Region’s first steel company was established in 2006 in Erbil, the Capital of the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq.  Erbil Steel Company started production in

Three coordinated car and suicide bombs killed 9 people and injuring 104 others in Kirkuk. Most were civilians.

Nasreen Barwari, Iraq's Harvard-educated former minister of public works, sees the mass uprisings in Egypt and other authoritarian Arab countries, as a new wave of democratization.