SAT-7 PARS’ live women’s programme Insiders is challenging culturally accepted actions and behaviour that restrict women’s rights and lives in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and reinforce the notion of women as second-class citizens. A special episode of Insiders broadcast on Women’s Day, 8 March, will highlight the role of women as heads of households and as breadwinners. Women in Persian […]
On International Women’s Day, SAT-7 programmes across the Middle East and North Africa celebrate women’s power to change society for the better, while calling for faster progress towards recognising their God-given, equal value in families, communities, and societies. On SAT-7’s Persian channel, SAT-7 PARS, women’s programme Insiders will focus its International Women’s Day episode on the needs of female-headed households. […]
Women and men who watched SAT-7’s Arabic women’s programme Needle and New Thread were more likely to support women’s rights to live free from violence and discrimination, says an independent evaluation that shows the programme successfully raised awareness among high percentages of viewers. The results of the final evaluation of the programme, released last month, reveal that Needle and New […]
SAT-7 women’s show Insiders spoke to an Iranian journalist and social activist who recently travelled to Afghanistan. Zahra M updated viewers on the stark new realities facing women and girls under Taliban rule in the country. “The reason the Taliban is afraid of women is that when women become informed, the world becomes well-informed,” Zahra M said. She explained that […]
The horrifying prevalence of “honour” killings in parts of Iran and Afghanistan was exposed in a recent edition of SAT-7 PARS’ Insiders programme. Fariba*, a writer and activist involved in poverty eradication and empowerment in rural areas of Iran, spoke of women she knew who live with the threat of violence from relatives. Nor are they all young, as we […]
For five years and six months, Samira* shares, she was separated from her two young children with no recourse to see them or fight for custody. A recent episode of SAT-7 ARABIC’s You are Not Alone tells Samira’s story and highlights the lack of legal protections that can leave Middle Eastern women, and their children, very vulnerable. “I can’t express […]
Stigma in the Middle East comes in many forms. Infertility, skin colour, disability, being adopted, being a lone parent or a member of a minority faith. In cultures where shame and honour play a big part, these and other characteristics divide and rank people in many people’s eyes. That’s why Backstage, a new SAT-7 ARABIC drama series, is immersing viewers […]
A SAT-7 women’s show host has made an impassioned call to Turkish authorities to protect women amid widespread outrage over the murder of a 27-year-old student. The discovery on 21 July of the body of Pinar Gültekin and gruesome details of how her alleged killer tried to dispose of it have provoked fury in a country that, since 2017, has […]
What does it mean to be a woman in a conservative, male-dominated society like Turkey? The latest episode of SAT-7 TÜRK talk show Turning Point took this as the focus in the week that marks International Women’s Day (8 March). The topic is a vital one in a nation that in 2018 was ranked 130 among 145 countries for gender […]
A thought-provoking new sitcom drama commissioned by SAT-7 ARABIC offers Middle Eastern viewers new perspectives on gender equality, racism, disability rights, freedom of religion and more. Produced by Cairo-based production house, Arascope, The Wall centres on married psychologists Sara and Adel, who share a single office partitioned by a wall. Their relationship is as divided as their Cairo-based clinic: he thinks […]
