''SOMA Digest'' is an

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-written

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in the

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. Its printing offices are located in

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and its press office 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, Go ...

. The paper was launched on February 14, 2006. It is issued on a fortnight basis and distributed across the whole of Iraq, reporting on

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and Iraqi affairs. Apart from containing analyses of the region's main topics, it also includes interviews with leading officials. The paper was named after ''soma'', which means "perspective" in

. Its Managing Editor is Tanya Goudsouzian. It has a national circulation of 8,000 copies per issue. The paper has close affiliations with the

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; ku, یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان, translit=Yekîtiya Nîştimanî ya Kurdistanê) is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describe ...

(PUK).

Current columnists and journalists

*Lawen Sagerma (Deputy Managing Editor)SOMA Digest - Staff
/ref> *Dr. Sherko Abdullah (Columnist) *Dolamite Da Pimp (Cultural Advisor) *Agri Ismail (Columnist) *Dr. Joseph Kechichian (Columnist) *Raz Jabary (UK Correspondent & Representative, London) *Anwar M. Qaradaghi (Language Editor) *Ari Anwar *Zheno Abdulla *Jalal Ahmed *Noman Abdurrahman Ali *Iason Athanasiadis *Roj Bahjat *Karokh Bahjat *Linda Berglund *Ilnur Cevik (Ankara) *Troy Davis *Jonathan Dworkin *Dr. Rebwar Fatah (London) *Pat Gaffney (London) *Basit Gharib *Dr. Harry Hagopian (London) *Dana Hameed *Dr. Albert Issa *Fakhri Karim (Baghdad) *Ali Kurdistani *Ibrahim Al Marashi (Istanbul) *Mohamed Karim Mohamed *Hawre Daro Noori *Shadman Janab Noori *Jamal Penjweny *Asoz L. Rashid (Baghdad) * Dr. Latif Rashid (Baghdad) *Bakhtiar Sabir *Qubad Talabani (Washington, DC) *Ranj Talabany *Awat Abdullah *Darya Ibrahim (Reporter) *Hazhar Mohammed *Galawizh H. Rashid (Reporter) *Ako Gharib

Soma Digest on YouTube

On January 1, 2010, SOMA Digest launched its online video channel on

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, thus aiming to spread its voice to a wider range of fans through the use of short pieces of viewing material.

References

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External links

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Old editions
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SOMA Digest
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