Poetry in the Cities of Literature Slemani UNESCO City of Literature 
Today, our dear guest is Zuleikha Kareem.

Zuleikha Kareem is a poet and translator born in 1985 in Erbil. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from Salahaddin University. Her poems have appeared in several literary magazines across Kurdistan. In 2020, her Kurdish translation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s was published by Sardam Publishing House, and her poetry collection Separating the Colors of Sorrow was published by Nusyar Publishing House in 2024.
We invite you to listen to the poem What Remains Within Your Heart to Surge? in the original language by the author