Category: Art & Culture
A Kurdish singer-songwriter has won a prestigious international award for maintaining the “highest artistic integrity in the face of political pressure.” Aynur Dogan received the WOMEX 21 Artist Award, which was introduced in 1999 to ...
CAIRO – For Ramadan this year, Magdy Hafez has been longing to reclaim a cherished ritual: performing the night-time group prayers called taraweeh at the mosque once again. Last year, the coronavirus upended the 68-year-old Egyptian’s ...
Turkish security forces seized a 2,000 – 2,500 -year-old Torah with golden inscription in northern Samsun province on Friday (March 26). Acting on a tip, police squads stopped two suspected car and found the manuscript, ...
The mother-daughter producing partners have, via their HiddenLight production company, optioned author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s ‘The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice’ for the small screen. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have set ...
The state-run body says the eye-shaped blue amulets – believed to date back to at least 3,300 BCE – are incompatible with Islam. Ankara, Turkey – The state-run religious authority has caused alarm by proclaiming the ...
Once upon a time, in the old, old days when the mouse was a barber, and the donkey ran errands, and the tortoise baked bread, there was a great mountain called Kaf Daği on the ...
About 15 years ago, Turkey had just launched its first satellite TV station and was able to broadcast around the world. A very popular genre of drama series called “dizi” had been born, and it ...
Erdogan beware: Innovative new Turkish drama ‘Ethos’ centers around feminine solidarity, features a lesbian couple and critiques religious institutions. My wife’s a big fan of Turkish drama series. On a recent visit to Istanbul, she ...
PHOTO: Birgün daily Video footage circulating on Turkish social media on Thursday showing the destruction of the inner walls of the medieval Galata Tower in İstanbul has led to public outrage, according to a report ...
Drawings of bare, misshapen bodies cover the inside of a prescription pill box, a worn bed sheet and the torn-out pages of a sociology text. Canvases tinted with tea and stitched with hair hang on ...