TV drama on great Kurdish poet Mastoureh Ardalan to be produced

Art and Literature 10:32 AM - 2021-07-28

A statue of Ardalan in Sanandaj, Iran.

Sanandaj Governor signed a contract with Iranian TV  to produce a TV drama on the life of the great Kurdish poet Mastoureh Ardalan.

 

Bahman Muradnia, the governor of Sanandaj said in a statement that "the renowned figures of Kurdistan should be taken into consideration and recognized as a symbol for the next generations."

 

He also said that the project will be carried out soon and is scheduled to be 15 episodes.

 

Mastura Ardalan was a Kurdish poet, historian, and writer. She was born in 1805 in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in east Kurdistan in Iran and died in1848 in the city of Sulaymaniyah in south Kurdistan (now the Kurdistan Region)

 

Her real name was Mah Sharaf Khanom. She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the court of the Ardalan principality centered in Senna. She studied Kurdish, Arabic and Persian under the supervision of her father

 

She was very close to her father who was one of the respected figures in Sanandaj. Her father has always encouraged his daughter to study from her early ages.  

 

She wrote several books of poetry, history and literature. She mainly wrote in the Hawrami or Gorani dialect of Kurdish and in Persian, but she has a few poems in Central Kurdish as well.

 

Most her Kurdish poetry was forgotten during the 20th century and was rediscovered and published by the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. She was a poet and said to be the only woman historiographer of the Middle East until the end of the nineteenth century. She wrote a book about the history of the Kurdish Ardalan dynasty. She also wrote a collection of poems, which has been republished in recent years.

 

Over one hundred scientific and cultural figures from across the world attended the congress in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which thirty articles in Kurdish, Persian, English, and Arabic were presented about the life and works of Mastoureh Ardalan.

 

 

 

Edited by Hiran

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