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Sulaimani hosted a local bazaar to support Kurdish small businesses on December 24, 2021. Photo: Layal Shakir/Rudaw
SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Sulaimani on Friday hosted a bazaar for small businesses highlighting local handmade products, aiming to boost brand recognition among the community.
Organized by two local entrepreneurs, the bazaar gave vendors the chance to showcase and sell their products.
Lanya Araz, 21, who owns a cosmetics brand, says bazaars of such kind are “good” to enhance relations between the business owner and customers.
"People like to see things before buying them, and this helps everyone’s business,” she told
Rudaw English from Nali’s Cafe, where the bazaar was being held.
Saz Zewar, who was helping her dad sell gemstones and jewelry described the one-day bazaar as “a way for people to become more familiar with our products.”
Similar bazaars that host local Kurdish handmade products have gained popularity in the Region as people, especially the young generation, are thriving in starting their own businesses.
“My father did not like the idea of these bazaars at first. But, our very first bazaar went great and ever since then he has taken part in any bazaar that he gets invited to,” Zewar said.
Sulaimani governor Haval Abubakir also attended the event. Abubakir is a big supporter of local businesses. He has been previously seen wearing a vest made of jamana fabric (a Kurdish fabric of black and white patterns) that was sewn by two local entrepreneurs.
Twenty-eight local businesses lined up in Nali’s Cafe on Friday afternoon as the winter break began in the Kurdistan Region.
Entrepreneurs from the Kurdish capital, Erbil also were present to showcase their products.
One of the bazaar organizers and co-owner of Ciwale skincare Kurdish brand, Przha Najmadin told Rudaw English that planning such events comes in efforts of supporting one another.
“The renting fees for tables at bazaars are usually very expensive in Sulaimani. The renting fee here is affordable for everyone. Small business owners can’t pay $100 for renting a table,” Najmadin said.
Vendors usually rent out tables for an amount of money, ranging from 25,000 dinars ($17) to 50,000 dinars ($34). But, some bazaar organizers often exploit the popularity local handmade products bring, charging them a vast sum of money.
A local Kurdish painter, known for his pseudonym Nashad also exhibited his painting at the bazaar.
The Rwanga Foundation on Thursday held a two-day handicraft bazaar for 16 local brands in Erbil.
Classic Rock Coffee also held its annual Christmas bazaar in the Kurdish capital earlier this month.
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