art and culture

12:01

Theaters and cinemas are slowly reopening in Morocco nearly two years after Covid-19 shutdowns. We talked to Bahia Founoun, a theatre player for 22 years, about the theater in Morocco, the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on culture and art.

11:42

Baghdad International Book Fair has been held in Baghdad. 288 local and international publishing houses participate in the book fair. Many authors also participate in the fair to sign their books for readers. Author Zaman El Hassan is one of these authors. We spoke to her about her latest released book.

15:41

Hanan, and Yasmine are two young women friends from Morocco. They have created a new style; sewn portraits.

12:39

Online harassment increases on the social media platforms. Harassment against women under the name of comments targeting women contains gendered discourses. A person harassed singer Nükhet Duru on a social media platform. “You are pushing 70, you go through menopause. Swear off, start praying,” says the post. Singer Nükhet Duru shared this comment on her social media account and said, “You cannot limit a woman to menopause and an artist to old age.”

13:41

Dûa El Bestatî was born without arms but this never stops her to be a skillful painter. She paints incredible paintings with her feet. “Break barriers,” calls Dûa, who wants to be a world-famous painter.

14:48

Female painters expressed their feelings, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, by participating in the "Colors of Hope" art exhibition launched on June 4 at Jardin Jnan Sbil located in the Fez city of Morocco

12:26

Female journalists and writers have been awarded with a plaque for their efforts to keep the Kurdish language alive.

13:17

“Teqîna reng” painting exhibition, held every year in Kobanî, opens its door for art lovers. Paintings of 17 young painters have been exhibited.

11:41

Imagine that you reflect your life on canvas with your lips. It is difficult, isn’t it? Undoubtedly, we have looked at the art of painting from a different perspective after watching the film “My Left Foot”. The film tells the story of a boy, who is unable to walk or talk but uses his left foot to paint. The life of Najat Bamri is not a film but she overcomes all obstacles. She is unable to use her hands but paints using her lips.

11:14

Painter Yekateryna Grygorenko aims to show the ugly, wrong, and disgusting aesthetics to the audiences, not the beauty and truth that they have been taught. By rejecting the reality we live in, she looks for a new reality within the frame of beauty coming to an end. She focuses on death, birth, pain, lust, disgust, and desire. “The needlework in most of my works creates a life by referring to the sanctity of woman, mother, birth, and reproduction and I build my own game in it,” she said.

13:46

“The woman challenged Yeşilçam’s unwritten rules,” said Sibel Öz, the author of “An Anti-Star in the Yeşilcam Actors-Star System: Adile Naşit” book, to describe Adile Naşit, “Adile Naşit tried to change the white, Turkish, Sunni and male cinema rules with her extraordinary stand and by normalizing the others. Despite the naive mother roles she performed, her story is actually the story of how she defeated the star system in her period and how she followed her own way step by step.

14:30

Solin Osé is a painter in NE Syria. She focuses on migration, women, and children in her paintings. “If you keep your hope alive, your dream will definitely come true,” she said.

12:57

The first training program titled, “RadioJin Podcast Training and Production Project for Women” will be held on June 19 with the support of Kültür için Alan (Space for Culture). The training program includes many topics such as the reflections of gender-based discrimination in language used by media, how an alternative language can be used while producing podcasts, what is happening in the world of podcasts and how to use the applications for producing contents.

09:47

2021 Clara Zetkin Honorary Award for social commitment goes to Kurdish jailed politician Gültan Kışanak.

13:00

Young women in Syria have played an active role in politics and art. They have rebuilt their lives with free art amidst the destruction caused by the Syrian war. Some of them are theatre players, some guitarists, some violinists… Beraa Hesen is one of them. The dream of Beraa is to develop Kurdish theater and make it known all around the world and perform street theatre.

14:49

Write Nexem Necar shows the Iraqi cuisine culture in her first cookbook titled “Cooking is my passion”. She is now working on her second cookbook. Nexem Necar told us that there are not only the recipes of Iraqi foods but also from around the world in her first book and that she will focus on herbs in her second book.

10:44

Mural painter Ayat Xelîl Amûrî paints murals about the culture and sufferings of Palestinians in Libya’s Benghazi city.

12:51

Tunisian theater artist and human rights activist Zainab Farhat died last night after a long struggle with cancer.

11:39

“Maryam Al-Azra” was first celebrated by Luis Resholi 237 years ago in Italy. This tradition has been continued by Syriac women living in NE Syria. Women wear a blue dress and don’t eat meat, yogurt, cheese, and fragrant foods for two months, in May and August. 90 –year-old Syriac Ediba David follows this tradition. She told us that they pray in these months to have peaceful, quiet, and happy days.

10:27

In the previous days, 68 people, mostly children were killed in the girls’ school bomb attack in Kabul. Women from many countries have also reacted to the attack. “Conscientious people will always remember this attack,” said Afghan painter Tahereh Amini, who painted children killed in the attack.