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INTERVIEW WITH MU’EYED TEYB
The interview was held at Spirez Printing and was translated by Shîvan Toma.
EM: First, can you state your name?
MT: His name is Mu’eyed Teyb
EM: I’ve come today ask you some questions about poetry, your life. Is it OK
with you that I use this information in my research for my college?
MT: I give permission for you use anything that I say for your research, for any
kind of research.
EM: And, it’s also your understanding that this could be published in a journal or
my thesis?
MT: It’s up to you. You can publish it anywhere you like, in a journal, in a book.
EM: Thank you. Can you tell us how your interest in poetry began?
MT: He says, at that time, we were Kurds, but we were studying in Arabic; school
was in Arabic, in his generation. In 1970, there was peace between Barzanî and the
government, the Iraqi government. Based on that peace treaty, one subject of Kurdish
was studied in school. So that was the first time that he came across Kurdish poetry,
Kurdish grammar, these things. So he was interested in Kurdish, and he liked that
because he saw that even in Kurdish there was poetry. A collection of poems by Ahmed
Nalbend was published at that time; it was a small one. He liked it very much, more than
the Arabic poems that he was used to. And he felt afterwards that he also could write
poems just like these poems. Thus he started, and the beginning, the real beginning was
around 1974-1975.
EM: You were in college, university by then?
MT: No, he was in 9 th grade, in secondary school.
EM: So, who are your favorite poets and why do you like them?