art and culture

11:45

Amid bombing and forced displacement, Gazan writer Fidaa Abu Mariam documents her survival and her city’s resilience. Her book “I Left My Face in the Mirror” allows readers to feel her words deeply and carry her memory forward.

10:02

The journey of oud player umaima El-Harem reflects the success of Middle Eastern women who choose to break clichés and make art a bridge between local identity and the universal.

14:24

With an exhibition and musical performance, Sweida’s artists aim to heal the wounds left by massacres through art, while also sending a message of hope and resistance.

09:00

The Free Women’s Foundation, through the plaster handicrafts trainings it organizes in Raqqa, aims both to provide young women with a profession and to revive the cultural heritage of the region.

08:30

The Moroccan photographer Saida Bouna, who documents the natural life of birds with artistic passion and expertise, reveals the hidden beauties of nature through her work while also carrying the responsibility of protecting the environment.

08:35

Painter Henda El-Obaidi found a world where she breathed freedom in colors and expressed her emotions and thoughts. Thanks to her talent and the support of her family, she managed to secure a place for herself in the Tunisian art scene.

12:40

The 18th International Women’s Film Festival, which started in Salé, brings the works of women filmmakers to audiences and honors women who have left a mark in the field of culture and arts.

09:02

“Alevi migrant director Intîsar Hezîm states that achieving success as a woman in the Middle East is a difficult equation, expressing that she has waged a long struggle to prove her existence in the shadow of a patriarchal mindset.”

08:30

Having stepped by chance onto the stage, Ruqaya Daw has become the voice of Southern women. Despite social barriers, she views theater as a tool of awareness and calls on women: “Do not be afraid to take the first step.”

13:58

In the harsh mountain villages of Afghanistan, in Kapisa, Sadaf Ahmadi resists the Taliban with poetry; with the verses ‘I am the daughter of this land,’ hope begins to blossom.

21:29

Artists a collective video project was created to call for peace. The text in the video was voiced by artist Jülide Kural.

14:55

At the 2nd Women’s Poetry and Literature Festival held in Halabja, poets read their works and the development of women’s literature was highlighted.

08:27

At the Hîlala Zêrîn Women's Culture and Art Movement center in Kobanê, dozens of young women and children are forming a unique artistic community and reviving the culture of women and mothers.

13:48

Arabic kohl is a symbol of authentic heritage, celebrated for its use of al-ethmad (Antimony) stone, one of the finest natural kohl varieties, valued for both its cosmetic appeal and therapeutic properties.

11:43

The cultural movement in North and East Syria is an important element that unites people from different identities. “Cultural activities create a unique and unbreakable power among people,” said Feryal Culi.

13:33

Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani will head the 51st Deauville American Film Festival, annually held in Deauville, France.

10:09

Palmyra, a folk dance group reflecting the cultural heritage of the Euphrates region in northeastern Syria, aims to be a global dance group.

20:43

Paintings displayed at an exhibition in Urmia, a city in Eastern Kurdistan, tell silent stories of women survivors of violence, saying, “We are here and we survived.”

10:38

Maria Penahî is an artist living in Sulaymaniyah. She carves the figures of Kurdish women resisting in Iran’s prisons. “Each figure is the voice of all women who have fought for freedom throughout history.”

11:03

Negin Vakilii held a doll exhibition in Sanandaj after collecting dolls from different countries for years. The dolls displayed at the exhibition tell women’s stories.