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Samia: The Little Dreamer is a dramatic feature film produced jointly by Italy, Germany, and Belgium, released in Germany on September 19, 2024. Shot in Somali and English, the film is inspired by the true life story of Olympic athlete Samia Yusuf Omar. It is directed by Yasemin Samdereli, with a screenplay written by Yasemin Samdereli and Giuseppe Catozzella. The film has recorded a worldwide gross box office revenue of 314 US dollars.PlotThe film tells the story of Samia, a young girl living i

The Emotional Map of Literature is a research and critical study by Esra Dicle that examines the concept of emotion in literature through an interdisciplinary perspective. Published in November 2022 by Dergâh Yayınları as part of its Turkish Literature – Studies series, the book spans 372 pages.Content and StructureThe book analyzes the relationships between emotional studies and fields such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, ecology, gender, and economics, using literary texts as

Silk and Copper is a narrative whole in which individual experiences, social roles, and human relationships are explored through short stories. Central themes in the book include minor events of everyday life, moments of rupture in relationships, the female experience, and the search for identity. The words “silk” and “copper” in the title are chosen to symbolize the contrasts within the stories—softness/hardness, sensitivity/resilience, fragility/tenacity. Relationships between men and women, l

Gülsün Karamustafa, born in 1946 in Ankara and currently residing in Istanbul, is a prominent Turkish artist. Her father is radio announcer Hikmet Münir Ebcioğlu. In her art, she explores themes of identity, migration, gender, borders and collective memory.Education and Academic CareerShe received painting instruction during her high school years at Ankara College, where her teachers included Eşref Üren, Turgut Zaim and Selva Tamkan. In 1962 she held her first exhibition in school halls and had

Women’s and Gender History: A Historical and Analytical OverviewThe emergence and evolution of women’s and gender history represent one of the most profound transformations in the modern historical discipline. For centuries, historical narrative was constructed as a "universal" account that was, in reality, almost exclusively focused on the actions, political structures, and intellectual contributions of men. The shift toward including women and, eventually, utilizing gender as a fundamental len

Leylâ Erbil’s novel A Strange Woman, published in 1971, is one of the significant narratives in Turkish literature that centers on themes of gender, female identity, and individual alienation. The work, structured in four main parts, traces the life of a female character from childhood to adulthood, revealing the familial, social, and ideological pressures she encounters along the way. The novel departs from traditional narrative forms through its deliberate use of punctuation, fragmented struct

Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the positions of women and gender within various social, cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts. This field critically interrogates gender inequality patriarchal structures and the binary gender system and emerged and institutionalized in the second half of the 1960s as a result of the second-wave feminist movement particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. Women’s Studies seeks to make visible wo

Women’s football in Türkiye is not merely a sporting practice; it is a multifaceted social domain where gender norms, bodily politics, media representations, and institutional regulations intersect. The presence of women in a sport like football—which is deeply associated with masculinity and historically defined by male participation—goes beyond physical involvement and serves as an indicator of gender-based inequalities, struggles for visibility, and cultural resistance. The trajectory of wome

The Last Tango with Hecaton: A Meta-Analysis of the Global Project to Corrupt the Family and Reconstruct Humanity is a book written by psychiatrist Mustafa Merter and published in 2023 by Ketebe Yayınları. The work employs a meta-analytic method to examine a social engineering project defined as the dismantling of the family structure and the reconstruction of humanity on a global scale. The book uses the figure of Hecaton from Greek mythology—a hundred-headed, hundred-armed being—as a metaphor

Gender Policies are a set of strategic arrangements aimed at enabling individuals to participate equally in all areas of social life without being subjected to any stereotypical constraints.Definition and HistoryConceptually, gender refers to the roles, responsibilities, and expectations imposed by society on women and men. These roles are socially constructed and vary according to culture, space, and time, unlike biological characteristics. Gender equality is based on the principle that differe