art and culture
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Visual Artist Embodies Women's Issues Through Her Works in a Powerful Visual Style
A visual artist, through the art of ceramics, transforms women's suffering and pain into an artistic language that expresses their issues, embodying them in her works through a powerful visual approach.
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Madya Qandil:We Aspire to a Cinema That Reflects Society’s Issues and Documents Women’s History
Medya Qandil, a preparatory committee member for the Rojava Cinema Conference, affirmed the need for a filmmakers' union, noting cinema's role in documenting society's history and women's struggles while building cultural awareness.
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Algerian Henna... A Symbol of Cultural Identity Preserved in Women's Memory
Henna in Algeria has evolved from a social ritual into a prominent symbol of cultural identity. Amid its regional pattern diversity, women preserve this heritage, passing it to new generations blending past authenticity with present modernity.
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Solidarity Campaigns for Independent Cultural Spaces in Tunisia
Tunisian cultural spaces face pressure as advocates launches solidarity campaigns against restrictions on public and intellectual freedoms.
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Archaeological Heritage in Kermanshan Faces the Threat of Extinction
Kermanshan’s landmarks, from Taq-e Bostan to Anubanini, face loss from neglect, vandalism, and Iranian cultural policies, eroding the region’s identity.
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Young Tunisian Artisan Gives Traditional Gharbal a New Artistic Life
Young Tunisian artisan Douaa Jradi is reviving the traditional Tunisian sieve (gharbal) by transforming it into decorative art pieces that preserve the country's cultural heritage.
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From a Passion for Painting to Nurturing Creativity in Khormal Children
Through her art of painting, Lana Aziz has been working since the opening of the Khormal Child Protection Center a year ago, aiming to serve the children of Khormal in the Kurdistan Region.
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Young Women from Baghdad Transform Walls into Vibrant Paintings and Preserve the Memory of Place
The "Butterfly Effect" team is driven by the belief that a small artistic touch can create great change, as young Iraqi women work to transform walls, streets, and schools into vibrant spaces of beauty and hope, breathing life back into society.
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Between the Stage and the Streets: A Journey of Resistance Beyond the Spotlight of Power
Tunisian actress Leila Chabbi views art as a powerful form of resistance, criticizing the silence of some artists on freedom and national issues while urging the artistic community to fulfill its social responsibility and speak out.
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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.