SOMA Digest


SOMA Digest is an English-written newspaper in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Its printing offices are located in Baghdad and its press office in Sulaymaniyah. The paper was launched on February 14, 2006. It is issued on a fortnight basis and distributed across the whole of Iraq, reporting on Kurdish and Iraqi affairs. Apart from containing analyses of the region's main topics, it also includes interviews with leading officials.
The paper was named after soma, which means "perspective" in Kurdish. Its Managing Editor is Tanya Goudsouzian. It has a national circulation of 8,000 copies per issue.
The paper has close affiliations with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Current columnists and journalists

On January 1, 2010, SOMA Digest launched its online video channel on YouTube, thus aiming to spread its voice to a wider range of fans through the use of short pieces of viewing material.