Djenghis, democracy and women

TEHERAN - Geïnspireerd door artikelen van Michel Foucault reisden Peter Van Goethem en Pieter Verstraete vijf weken lang door Iran. Ze onderzochten op welke manier hedendaagse Iraanse kunstenaars met de door het Islamitische regime opgelegde censuurmaatregelen omgaan.

TEHERAN - The Islamic Republic regime in Iran has been oppressing its people for more than 40 years. In response to this repression and suffocation, the popular uprising of ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ is a powerful ‘no’.

BRUSSELS - Journalist and writer Catherine Vuylsteke chronicled the life stories of Mar Maremoto, Ann Telnaes, Rachita Taneja, Doaa El-Adl, Victoria Lomasko and Amany Al-Ali, six women cartoonists from Mexico, the U.S., India, Egypt, Russia and Syria to whom the documentary series Draw for Change, recently awarded at Cannes, is dedicated.