Forged during the Syrian war, Rojava’s experiment in radical self-government offers a lens for examining how the left ...

How a forgotten hellhole in Syria impacts millions of people in the UK - IN FOCUS: As a damning new report on Britain’s ...

Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist ...

Gwen Stefani has received significant backlash over the years following multiple controversial moments in her career. Stefani ...

While government initiatives symbolically honour women’s empowerment, public attacks from influential figures risk discouraging young women from stepping forward in education, politics and civic life.

The Iranian judiciary says two organisers of a marathon have been arrested for allowing women who were not wearing hijabs to ...

Iranian cinematographer Touraj Aslani will serve as a jury member at the 3rd Amed Film Festival, which will take place from ...

In northeastern Syria, a growing community of artists—dancers, musicians, filmmakers—fights to preserve the region’s diverse ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Ten Kurdish dance troupes are performing this week to rapt audiences in the western Iranian city of Mahabad’s third annual dance festival that celebrates Kurdish culture and ...

The festival aims at performing works in Kurdish to play a vital role in strengthening the region’s cultural heritage and traditional rituals, ISNA quoted Hamidreza Khoshbakht, the secretary of the ...

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's chosen work is a subtle statement around female solidarity, which evokes memories of her time in prison.

Speed is the defining factor of this moment in artificial intelligence, but the need to move fast risks leaving women behind. At a moment when nearly half a million women have left the U.S. workforce ...