Poetry in the Cities of Literature. Slemani Slemani UNESCO City of Literature.
Today we are introducing the poet from Slemane, Rebaz Mahmud. 
Rebaz Mahmud was born in 1973 in the village of Genkee in the Sharbazher District of Slemani Governorate, Kurdistan Region. He completed his studies at the Teachers' Institute in Slemani in 1992. In the early 1990s, as part of the workers' literary movement, he published his first poetry booklet, The Caravan is Underway, and in 2008, he published a poetry book titled The Wind Plays with the Garden's Memories. He currently resides in the Netherlands.
You can enjoy his poem Time’s Old Carpet in the author's performance in Kurdish — the original language: