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INTERVIEW WITH REŞÎD FINDÎ
Mr. Findî is the chief editor of the five volumes of Ahmed Nalbend’s poetry. The
interview was held in November of 2009 at Spirez Printing. The translator was Silêman
Silêman.
EM: I’ll begin with some questions just concerning use of the interview, to use it
for my research. So, I need your permission to use this interview in my research, in my
thesis paper.
RF: Yes, that is right.
EM: And is it OK if this is published even in a journal or in a book.
RF: No problem.
EM: Can you first just state your name?
RF: Reşîd Findî Yehya Dosky, the vice-president of the Kurdish Academy
EM: Can you tell us what your job was on Nalbend?
RF: My sole purpose was the editor of Nalbend’s creative poetry. I was the main
editor and one of the main gentlemen who typed his poetry. His friend―Nalbend’s friend
named Tahir Mahi―Tahir Mahi collected all his poems on paper, but in an old type of
writing. Then after that, we collected them. We collected and typed them, and afterward
typeset them for the press.
EM: That’s a lot of work.
RF: That collection of his poems is five books. I read all of them three times.
EM: What do we know of Nalbend’s beginning? What started him writing
poetry?
RF: Nalbend didn’t go to school. His main school was going to the mosque. After
that he got his mullah cleric, religious title. With his religious reading he picked up
writing poetry. He was born in 1890. During that era the Turkish were ruling, the