Whenever he arrives in Sulaimani, he immediately calls us and asks for a meeting. He wants to understand the development of Sulaimani, the cultural movement, the protest movement, freedoms and the general situation. Once, I called him and asked him where he was. He said he was still in the sky; his plane had not landed yet.

Abdul Mun'im al-Assam, a prominent Iraqi writer, has published articles and poetry in Iraqi newspapers since the mid-1960s, he has also published articles in Kurdish newspapers published in Arabic such as Ta'akhi and Al-Ittihad.

 He currently writes for the newspapers Al-Madaw and Tariq al-Shaab, criticizing political power, corruption, the dominance of political sectarianism and division.

Today, March 16, we were happy to meet, we discussed several topics related to Kurdish and Iraqi journalism, he asked us many questions about the work of the Metro Center expressed his pleasure and support for our new project that monitors freedom of expression.