art and culture

13:15

Portrait photographer Mehsa Sifori takes the photos of artists, especially female artists in Kermanshah and displays their photos in exhibitions to make them known.

09:08

The Munzur Culture and Nature Festival will kick off in Dersim on July 25, 2024. DBP Dersim Co-chair Selvi Güngörmüş calls on all people to join the festival “to embrace this resistance and have a say in the festival.”

15:08

Two journalists and one media worker were injured when a Turkish drone targeted their car near Shengal (Sinjar) on Monday.

14:07

A starfish fossil has been discovered in the ruins of a 1500-year-old church in archaeological excavations in Amed.

11:05

Despite difficult conditions of displacement, women writers of Afrin keep expressing their lives and their struggle in their books.

10:39

The Culture and Art Center in Manbij Canton supports young people by providing painting, theatre, music and dance courses so that they have a space to discover their talents.

09:15

The Women's Association for Culture, Art and Literature (KASED) gets ready to provide new courses to women and children next week. “We can organize more activities together with women,” said Saliha Ayata.

14:59

Rasmiye Al-Arslan and Sahar Abdel Rahman, two female painters in Raqqa, portray women to record their experiences.

12:39

Koma Amara, a Kurdish musical group, has released a new music video, “Apo Roje” in three languages as part of the “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question” campaign.

11:26

Fatîma Xelîl, a student at the Rojava University, has been writing Kurdish stories and poems for five years and her aim is to write a book based on true stories.

11:42

Poet Fatima Maizi writes and reads zejel poems, known as an old Arabic poetic form, about women’s resistance in the Moroccan Nationalist Movement against French colonialism.

13:40

The 27th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival kicked off at the Ankara Opera House with the award ceremony on May 9.

14:22

Hunergeha Welat, a community of art and culture based in North and East Syria, has released a new music video called “Em Herin Gund (Kurdish: Let’s go to the village)”.

09:55

“The unifying power of art has an ability to connect people,” said theatre players, who participated in the Amed Theater Festival from Saqqez and Urmia, cities in Rojhilat Kurdistan.

09:17

17-year-old high school student Tia Qaid Bey recycles unused CDs into art to protect the environment and earn money.

09:44

Teachers and students in Makhmour refugee camp, who started an orchestra, are getting ready to celebrate the birthday of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan on April 4.

08:14

Theater actresses in Hasakah keep performing despite the patriarchal mindset that rejects their existence in society.

10:20

Kawthar Hami living in Manbij Canton learned how to weave rugs and carpets from her mother. “Weaving rugs and carpets is an art that should be passed down from generation to generation,” she said.

13:45

Numerous female artists participated in the art exhibition held at Tonkabadi Art Gallery in Ilam, a Kurdish city in Iran’s Ilam County.

12:50

The song “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî", composed by MKM musician Hediye Kalkan for International Women's Day, March 8, has been shared on online platforms.