Turkish Female Cadets Top Türkiye’s National Defence University Graduation
New Age Islam News Bureau
01 September 2024
• Turkish Female Cadets Top Türkiye’s National Defence University Graduation
• Iranian Women's National Lifeguard Team Wins Silver In World Championships
• Women In Afrin, Shahba Protest Against Turkish Occupation, Its Mercenaries
• In Senegal’s Thriving Hip-Hop Scene, Women Are Now Taking The Front Seats
• Eight Powerful Novels About Arab Women That Capture The Female Experience
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/turkish-female-türkiye/d/133095
-----
Turkish Female Cadets Top Türkiye’s National Defence University Graduation
Sep 1, 2024
President Erdogan presents the diploma to valedictorian student Seyda Yildirim (R) during National Defense University (MSU) Naval War College Commencement and Flag Handover Ceremony in Tuzla, Istanbul, Türkiye, August 31, 2024. (AA Photo)
------
Türkiye’s National Defence University (MSU) held its Diploma and Flag Handover Ceremony for the Army, Naval, and Air War Colleges, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in attendance. This year’s graduation ceremony was notably influenced by the achievements of Turkish female cadets.
Türkiye’s first female military officer, Communications Colonel InciArcan, a graduate of the Turkish Military Academy. (Photo via Interior Ministry)
The torch, originally lit by Türkiye’s first female officer, 86-year-old Retired Communications Colonel InciArca, was passed to the female cadets who graduated at the top of their classes.
President Erdogan gives EbruEroglu (R), the valedictorian of the Land War College, her diploma during Commencement and Flag Handover Ceremony of National Defense University in Ankara, Türkiye, August 30, 2024. (AA Photo)
President Erdogan delivers IkraKuyumcu, the valedictorian of the Air War College, her diploma during the National Defense University (MSU) Air War College Commencement and Flag Handover Ceremony in Istanbul, Türkiye, August 31, 2024. (AA Photo)
During his speech at the ceremony, President Erdogan expressed his pride, stating, “I am particularly delighted to note that our female cadets have taken the top honors at the graduation ceremonies of the Army, Naval, and Air War Colleges. This is a special badge of honor for us. It clearly demonstrates that our women can succeed, and not only succeed but excel, especially as soldiers.”
Source: Www.Turkiyetoday.Com
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/turkish-female-officers-47340/
-----
Iranian women's national lifeguard team wins silver in world championships
Photo: Islamic Republic News Agency
-----
Aug 31, 2024
Iranian women's national lifeguard team, composed of Maryam Mohebbi, Kajhaan Rostami, Faezeh Ashourpour, and Pardis Abdolmohammadi, competed in the 90 meter-long beach category.
The 2024 Lifesaving World Championships is being held on the Gold Coast in Australia, between the 20th of August and the 8th of September 2024.
Source: En.Irna.Ir
https://en.irna.ir/news/85583967/Iranian-women-s-national-lifeguard-team-wins-silver-in-world
-----
Women in Afrin, Shahba protest against Turkish occupation, its mercenaries
31 August 2024
A woman attempting to cross the Syrian-Turkish border faced a sexual assault attempt by Turkish mercenaries. Additionally, a young woman and a woman were driven to death in the town of Mobata in occupied Afrin due to repeated violations since Turkey and its mercenaries occupied Afrin in 2018, according to the Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization.
On August 29, ANHA correspondent reported from a local source in the occupied city of GirêSpî that a 12-year-old orphan girl named "Mays" was sexually assaulted by a Turkish mercenary.
In protest against the Turkish occupation and its crimes against women and residents in the occupied areas, dozens of women in the town of Al-Ahdath in Afrin-Shahba, North and East Syria, held a demonstration. They carried signs reading "No to Violence Against Women," "Women Protect Themselves," and "No to Killing Women."
Simultaneously, the Sara Organization for Combating Violence Against Women issued a statement read in Kurdish by Council Member of the Sardam Camp, Klestan Mustafa, and in Arabic by Sara Organization member Tekushin Muhammad.
The organization called on human rights and humanitarian organizations, especially those protecting women's rights, to fulfill their responsibilities and work towards stopping the crimes of the Turkish occupation and holding it accountable.
Source: Hawarnews.Com
https://hawarnews.com/en/women-in-afrin-shahba-protest-against-turkish-occupation-its-mercenaries
-----
In Senegal’s thriving hip-hop scene, women are now taking the front seats
3108-2024
In a classroom at Senegal’s House of Urban Culture, tucked away in the narrow streets of Dakar’s Ouakam neighborhood, AminataThiam clapped her hands in time with a beat she created on her computer.
Thiam is a beatmaker, and one of only a few women in Senegal who call themselves such. Her stage name is “Myamy the Ay Girl,” a mix of English and Wolof that means “the girl who can”.
Beatmaking, she says, is the art of “making beats, making rhythms.” An art form that started in the '70s and '80s in the U.S. hip hop scene, beatmaking has gained popularity in Senegal thanks to the proliferation of beatmaking software.
The country’s hip hop scene is thriving compared to many West African countries, but conservative ideas about the role of women in society still abound.
"Not just for music, but for audiovisual work, for cinema,” she said, emphasizing that knowing how to make music on a computer isn’t just for hip hop.
The question of accessibility looms over much of the House of Urban Culture’s work in Senegal. Amadou Fall Ba was the coordinator of the House of Urban Culture for 10 years, and now works with the city of Dakar on an initiative to create more public spaces for young people in an aim to make urban culture more accessible.
He says hip hop came to Senegal through the country’s middle class, and eventually made its way to the masses. He says that now, 80% of the stars in Senegal’s larger urban culture scene are from working class neighborhoods. Women are still severely underrepresented though, he said.
“Women aren’t that numerous in this scene, even though according to the last census with the National Agency of Statistics and Demography men and women in Senegal have more or less the same numbers. About 50% each. So for me, in terms of the democratization of urban cultures, we have a lot of work to do to have young women start taking part in this culture, to not be scared,” he said.
In Thiam’sbeatmaking class, the room is silent, each student lost in a different world underneath noise canceling headphones. After six weeks of classes they are now able to produce beats of their own.
As they continued working, Thiam stepped outside in the courtyard to speak about her own history. She says there are only three women beatmakers in Senegal, and she hopes that the more women are active in beatmaking, the more other women will be inspired to start.
“If we train women who are capable of going far in this industry, this will encourage other women to join us,” she said.
Source: Www.Africanews.Com
-----
Eight powerful novels about Arab women that capture the female experience
Maan Jalal
September 01, 2024
For generations, the Arab female experience has been reframed by colonisers, orientalists and even the pressures of society. But literature is a powerful way to reclaim that narrative.
Here are eight novels that capture the Arab female experience, from navigating family conventions to finding inner strength and meaning through friendship.
Coocoo, a young immigrant woman in Toronto, is having a crisis of faith. She meets what seems to be the perfect man, Mohammad – perfect but for the fact that he’s married.
Through powerful imagery, Noor Naga writes a part-poem, part-fiction verse-novel that chronicles Coocoo's unravelling as the love and connection she has for Mohammed transforms from longing and obsessive to something unworthy and without pride. Throughout this journey, Nouf, her best friend supports her as they navigate the many contradictions between love and faith in Coocoo’s life.
Malak, Kees and Jenna have been best friends since childhood, living under the conservative gaze of their close-knit families. They have spent their adolescence and lives as young women, balancing their family’s expectations with the lives they want.
However, as they come into their own, balancing these two worlds is becoming impossible. Malak is looking for love, Kees has found it, but with the wrong man, and Jenna pretends she doesn’t need it, filling her life with pleasure and parties instead. And while they have each other, everything changes one night in their final year of university, forcing them to confront not only each other but also their future.
An unnamed 32-year-old narrator reveals a glimpse into the life and reality of women in war-torn Beirut. Written in a fast-paced style, the narrator and her three friends, Zumurrud, Zeezee and Shwikar, are attempting to navigate their careers, personal lives and the expectations placed on them.
Through their intimate and funny conversations, we understand more of the struggles of leading an independent life in Lebanese society and the power and importance of female friendships.
Deya doesn’t want to get married but she has no choice. As part of a conservative Arab family living in Brooklyn, she is expected to marry one of the many suitors her grandparents welcome to their home. This is the same thing that happened to Deya’s mother when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Deya’s father. Deya believed both died in a car accident. Or did they?
Asya is thinking about her life. As her beloved uncle is about to have an operation in London, the novel flashes back to a significant phase in her life as a young woman in 1960s Cairo.
Growing up in an affluent, liberal and educated family, Asya’s life changes against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli war. The social and geopolitical effects of the war, has a significant effect on her family's dynamics. As a means of escape, Asya marries a Westernised man and life starts to take a semblance of normality.
Gamrah, Sadeem, Michelle and Lamees are part of upper middle class Saudi society. And while that has its perks, the group of friends also have their own dreams and desires. While they attempt to explore a different life, they quickly understand that they run the risk of disappointing their families.
The novel has been praised and criticised for its portrayal of contemporary Saudi life and its open exploration of issues pertaining to young Arab women such as identity, love and attempting to balance a “modern” way of life with traditional values.
The story of four generations of Palestinian women in Gaza is explored in this powerful story. After being violently expelled off their farming village of Beit Daras, the women of one family are left to be both breadwinners and protectors or their loved ones.
Nahid is an archaeologist who is looking into the past a well as into herself to search for liberation. Nahid's story is a journey inward, a quest where she seeks to break free from her own self-imposed beliefs that have severely affected her sense of self.
She is an unreliable narrator, which makes her journey, feelings, thoughts and memories at times strange if not fantastical. While she is strangely attracted to the idea of keeping up appearances from her middle-class upbringing, Nahid must also confront questions of love and intimacy within her loveless marriage to Mustafa, and her relationship with novelist and journalist Omar, who himself is trapped in a marriage that is very different from her own.
Source: The National News
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/books/2024/08/30/arab-female-women-novels/
-----
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/turkish-female-türkiye/d/133095