art and culture

17:15

Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Prize at the 2023 Tokyo International Film Festival for Tatami. The film starring and directed by Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the jury award at the festival.

11:01

After three-day fasting, Yarsani Kurds came together for Qawltas celebration and sat at the table of Sultan Sahak symbolizing abundance.

09:30

The Theatre Community of the Afrin-Shahba Region Culture and Art Movement organized a course named, “Avakirina Lîstokyan” to train new theatre players.

10:57

14-year-old Rona Egîd opened a Kurdish Children’s Library in Qamishlo, the first children’s library in Rojava. Rona, who also publishes a children’s magazine, aims to open a Kurdish Children’s Library in every city of Rojava.

10:34

Women attending the Women’s Festival of Art and Culture held in Êlih (Batman) said that they would keep struggling for their language and culture.

09:44

Lebanese artist Maya Fares transfers her passion for art into hand painted porcelain paintings. She teaches this art to other women.

14:08

Women from different sects and groups participating in the march in Morocco express their solidarity with Palestinian women, who are subjected to genocidal attacks and violence.

10:52

25-year-old Avin Tayfur whose interest in children’s literature drove her to write thinks children’s books should be written carefully.

09:34

Film director Dilan Toftik says the FilmAmed Documentary Film Festival is a resistance against assimilation policies.

12:28

The Atelier Gaza provides a space for women artists to address women’s issues in their artwork.

13:51

A group of women in the Gaza Strip weave palm leaves to make traditional decorative objects and baskets to preserve Palestinian heritage and prevent it from disappearing.

09:36

Talîta Şemûn Kako says the Atra Group aims to revive Syriac folk dances and preserve Syriac culture.

09:04

Children in the Makhmour refugee camp attend cultural and artistic courses such as painting, singing and folklore.

15:37

Poet Fayrouz Rishk says that women have played an important role in art and culture since the revolution in North and East Syria. “My poems are about the sufferings of my people.”

13:36

80-year-old Dallah Assaf, who got Deq (Kurdish tattoos) on her face and hands when she was young, says the tradition of deq differs from region to region.

11:39

Sound Rise is a short film by Farya Younesi on the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom)” uprising that started in Iran and Rojhilat.

12:19

Libyan women painters address women’s issues in their paintings in order to raise awareness about women’s rights.

12:53

Najla Abu Lahia started a museum in the Gaza Strip named, “Al Qarara Cultural Museum” by collecting more than 3,000 artifacts to preserve Palestinian historical heritage.

10:16

“A person deprived of art and culture is a missing person,” said Zenura Babat, a teacher of the Stêra Zêrîn Cultural Center. “Musical instruments have existed since ancient times and we want to preserve our culture through them.”

14:06

On the 842nd day of the sit-in protest for justice, the Şenyaşar family referred to the speech of Turkey’s Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç on World Law Day and said, “The head of justice does not wish.”