Sulaimani bazaar displays arts, crafts during Ramadan nights

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - A bazaar opened on the first day of Ramadan for local entrepreneurs to showcase handicrafts, paintings, and clothes in the city of Sulaimani. 

The stalls will be available until the end of Ramadan, with the bazaar being open from 8 pm until late at night. All the works that have been exhibited are original handmade products made by women who have their own startups and brands.

“These products I have displayed here are made in our village of Sharbazher district, we make a range of household items from natural wood,” Shno Aziz, an entrepreneur, told Rudaw’s Horvan Rafaat on Thursday. 

“Our items are accessories and household products such as bowls, tea cups, coffee cups, and grinders,” she added. 

Mir Baban, an organizer of the Bazaar, said the aim of the project was to help his friends and colleagues showcase their products and benefit from the Ramadan nights. 

“Their products are of good quality and guests who are attending have provided good feedback,” Babam said. 

In addition to the goods and food displayed, foreign and local religious music groups perform for the visitors. 

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar (Hijri), during which followers of the religion abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk.