editor's pick

10:00

Maria Farantouri, a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist, was born on November 28, 1947, in Athens. Fighting the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, she recorded protest songs. She was an elected member of the Greek Parliament from 1989 to 1993 representing the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). Let’s listen to “To Gelasto Paidi” song by Maria Farantouri and Mikis Theodorakis.

09:20

Suffragette is a 2015 British historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. The film also sheds light on the conditions of the working class and the working women in England in the 1900s. In 1912, Maud Watts is a 24-year-old laundry worker. While delivering a package, she is caught up in a suffragette protest which includes her workmate, Violet Miller. After Maud, who is married and has children, starts to get to know the suffragettes, her life changes. After attending a protest, she is arrested, and jailed for a week. She faces stigma from neighbors and workmates. She tells her husband that she will stay away from the suffragettes but attends a secret rally to hear Pankhurst speak. She is detained again and taken home by police. Her husband throws her out. She struggles to see her son, continuing to work until her picture is published as a known suffragette.

10:26

Celia Sánchez Manduley was the heart and soul of the Cuban Revolution. “Fears are now history, and now the people have a real sense of their own feelings and the revolution is above all else,” she wrote in her letter to her father.

13:05

Sima Bina is an Iranian traditional musician, composer, researcher, painter, and teacher. She was born on January 4, 1945. She started her career on Iranian radio at the age of nine, under the guidance of her father, Ahmad Bina, a master of Iranian classical music and poet. She studied the radif repertoire and avaz vocal technique with great masters such as Maaroufi and Zarrin Panjeh.

10:48

The Cut tells the story of the Manoogian family during the Armenian genocide. It tells how the suffering of the peoples, who were subjected to genocide, is the same.

09:00

Author, professor, feminist, and social activist bell hooks died on December 15, 2021, at her home in Berea, Kentucky, aged 69.

13:50

December 7, 16 Azar 1332 in the Iranian calendar, is the Student Day in Iran. It is the anniversary of the murder of three students of the University of Tehran on December 7, 1953, by Iranian police in the Pahlavi era. Every year, university students organize local demonstrations at many universities.

10:52

When women participated in the revolution in Rojava, they followed in one women’s footsteps; Meysa Baqi, also known as Şilan Kobanê. Şilan Kobanê was born in a family of nine, a family from the Kêtikan tribe in Kobanî. She was a member of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Central Committee when she was killed on November 29, 2004.

11:36

Tina Turner, who was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in the USA, is a well-known singer and actress and one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She began her musical career with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, “Boxtop”, in 1958. In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single “A Fool in Love”. She has received 12 Grammy Awards.

10:00

Politician and activist Parvaneh Eskandari is a victim of the chain of murders of Iran in 1998. Before being killed, she was detained and arrested many times due to her activism. But she never gave up and fought capitalist modernity, the latest form of the male-dominated system.

08:50

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as la Pasionaria (the Passionflower) was a Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist known for her famous slogan ¡No Pasarán!. She was born on December 9, 1895, Gallarta, to a Basque miner and a Castillian mother. She left school at fifteen after spending two years preparing for teacher's college at the encouragement of the schoolmistress. Her parents could not afford further education, so she went to work as a seamstress and later as a housemaid. She became a waitress in the town of Arboleda. There, she met Julián Ruiz Gabiña, union activist and founder of Socialist Youth of Somorrostro. They married in 1915. They participated in the general strike of 1917. Dolores İbárruri spent nights reading the works of Karl Marx and others found in the library of the Socialist Workers' Centre in Somorrostro.

11:33

“In the Time of the Butterflies” is a movie that can be watched every day. It tells the story of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

08:00

Jennifer Clement is an American-Mexican author. In 2015, she was elected as the first woman president of PEN International. She also served as President of PEN Mexico from 2009 to 2012. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. She is the author of four novels: Gun Love, Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies, and The Poison That Fascinates.

10:18

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.

10:24

November 1 has been celebrated as the World Kobanê Day since 2014. How was this day declared as Kobanê Day?

10:40

Lise Meitner, who did not give up her passion for physics and made great discoveries despite she faced discrimination, died on October 27, 1968, in Cambridge.

11:31

Reyhaneh Jabbari killed Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former Iranian intelligence officer, in self-defense when he tried to rape her in Iran. In 2007, she was arrested for murdering Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. In her statement, she said that Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi had tried to rape her and she killed him in self-defense. In 2009, she was sentenced to death by a Tehran court.

10:20

Meryem Xano, a Syriac woman, told us the story of Mart Schmoni Church, “This story is very similar to today and history repeats itself.”

11:38

Journalist Dilan Ölmez is remembered by her friends on the second year of her death with the legacy of “truth” she left behind.

14:11

Journalist Dilişan İbiş was killed in the attack of ISIS against civilians four years ago. “She wanted to report the atrocity of ISIS against women to the whole world. Dilişan struggled for women’s freedom. She wanted to be the voice of truth,” her colleague says.