art and culture
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Could the "Wednesday Cinema" Initiative Be the Spark That Revives Taiz's Cinematic Glory?
Taiz's "Wednesday Cinema" rekindles cinematic passion, uniting youth in a free space to restore film's role in shaping consciousness and cultural dialogue.
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“Fajin” Institute: An Artistic Revolution Nurturing Generations to the Rhythms of Kurdish Culture
Kobani's "Fajin" Institute trains children and youth in music through academic courses, aiming to build a musically skilled and culturally aware generation.
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Shadiya Mannab: There Is No Genuine Women’s Literature Unless Women Write Their Own Stories
Kurdish literature has long rooted women in oral tales and epics. With social and political shifts, new women’s voices are now emerging in written literature.
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A jordanian Artist Who turned her Brush into a tool to Resist Silence and Write Women’s Stories
Artist Dima Abu Sharkh turned art into expression, resistance, and healing_her paintings extending women’s voices and experiences beyond color and form.
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Ariz Sarwar: A Visual Artist Transforming Her Small Café into an Exhibition of Art and Identity
Ariz Sarwar is a visual artist who depicts women's issues, nature, and Kurdish and social identity in her paintings. She has transformed a small café into a space for exhibiting her artworks.
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Fatima Chaouti: Feminist Writing as a Space to Combat Violence and Exclusion
Today, women’s writing is an act of resistance confronting cultural hegemony and discrimination, exposing stereotypes’ fragility. It is a space for liberation, reshaping consciousness, and declaring a female presence that regects exclusion.
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Tunisian artist paints on water and turns colors into stories
Tunisian artist Zahra Zarrouk discovered Ebru art by chance, finding in it her refuge from breaking, her life's message, and a shelter for women to express their pains.
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“Hope and Leaves” mural… a journey of asylum painted on Brussels wall
The mural Hope and Leaves embodies the vision of Sudanese artist Alaa Satir of the asylum journey as a continuous movement toward safety, using human bodies and birds in a powerful visual metaphor.
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From straw and ropes, a story is born… a woman revives the heritage of Sweida
Facing disappearance of crafts, Sahr turns handicrafts into generational bridge; forty years of experience become artistic artistic project reviving popular heritage with modern spirit, keeping it alive in homes and memory.
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An Iraqi woman uses digital media to revive Mesopotamian civilization and showcase its heritage to the world
Jumana Al Samarrai combines artifact restoration and cultural content creation, passionately reviving Mesopotamian civilization's historical memory and transmitting it to new generations with a scientific vision blending authenticity and modernity.
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Changing historical symbols... erasing national memory
The Syrian interim government's monolithic approach threatens centuries-old cultural and religious diversity. Changing historical symbols erases regional history, threatens collective memory, and deepens societal division.
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A Moroccan artist uses theater to raise women's issues and social representations
Moroccan theater artist Fatima Zahra Al‑Sandadi combines theatrical work with engagement in women's issues, addressing gender identity and social representations in Moroccan society.
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Chafika Fguir… an artistic journey reclaiming her self after a long silence
After years of interruption, artist Chafika Fguir returns to her canvas with renewed passion, carving her way between motherhood and society's challenges, making art space for memory, identity, and freedom.
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A Moroccan woman sends a humanitarian message to women through art
The artistic experience of Thoria Razqi, a Moroccan woman and mother of four, embodies a model of determination and self‑actualization, in a prominent challenge to the revolution against the traditional roles imposed on women by society.
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The drug crisis in Iran…. Citizens’ health truns into a card in the hands of influence networks
Iran currently faces one of the most dangerous health crises as drug shortages, now a structural phenomenon, threaten the lives of millions of citizens, especially children and chronic disease patients.
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A sculptor turns scrap metal into art that tells a tale of passion and challenge
Eman Ahmed Ali’s journey beğen by chance but a conscious artistic path:discovering sculpture,investing in diverse materials,transforming iron scrap into language of vision,meaning,and innovation.
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A craftswoman from Kasserine revives Tunisian heritage with the sparkle of crystal
Wahida Ben Said has succeeded in using crystal to revive the traditional Tunisian dress and preserve heritage in a style that combines creativity and identity.
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After more than seven months... first trial session for the accused in the assassination of Iftihan Al-Mashhouri
“After months of feminist and popular mobilization,Taiz’s Specialized Criminal Court Opened the first trial in Iftihan Al-Mashhouri’s assassination case – a step toward the judicial process of holding perpetrators accountable.”
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"Shadow of Fozlavio" – A novel revealing the pain of Sudanese women in a society governed by customs
Batool Al-Sharif's bold novel, inspired by Sudanese women's reality, uncovers their struggle with restrictive customs and stolen dreams, highlighting harsh social practices that besiege them between silence and deprivation.
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"Hunna Al-Hayat" Museum... A project documenting Iraqi women's creativity and evoking their civilizational heritage
Iraqi researcher Mrs.Al-Nu'mani discovered women have been an integral part of civilization-building, and that their real role is far greater than what is narrated in books, which drove to establish her project, the Museum.