“Our emotions change very quickly. We should be able to draw them out quickly too,” said web developer/comics artist Maya Zankoul at the beginning of the workshop she held at our office on Saturday, 27 March 2010. She explained how illustration is a way of communication, of representation, and how the right brain is intuitive [...]
Nasawiya and Ethiopian Suicides Blog are teaming up to raise awareness about migrant domestic workers this Labor Day (May 1). We’re planning several actions and events to highlight the plight of these more than 200,000 laborers in Lebanon. Maids are falling from the windows and balconies of employers and employment offices under dubious circumstances. This [...]
Nasawiya continues its Gender and IT program with another WordPress workshop entitled “Hacking WordPress Themes” on Saturday, 3 April 2010. Led by web developer Mireille Raad, the workshop will take place between 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM at our office in Mar Mikhael (call 01-447192 for directions). WordPress is a leading open source web-publishing application [...]
Nasawiya is keen on sponsoring female students to take part in ArabNet 2010, the first international conference for the Arab web industry, bringing together leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities. The conference will take place on March 25-26, 2010 at Habtoor, Grand Hotel, Lebanon. If [...]
After a few months of hiatus, Sawt Al Niswa (Women’s Voice), our feminist magazine is back. This time, it’s bigger, better and online, serving the Arab region and the world. Originally launched on March 8, 2009 by a group of Lebanon-based feminist women to coincide with International Women’s Day, Sawt Al Niswa (SAN) appeared in [...]
On this year’s International Women’s Day, over 100 people answered Nasawiya’s call to take to the streets to take back the night. For roughly two hours, feminists made their way from Mar Mikhael, Gemayze to Ain el Mraiseh, marching past bedazzled onlookers, curious drivers who ground to a halt, and wary police cars and officers [...]
Now Lebanon’s Haeon Lee joined Nasawiya’s International Women’s Day march on Monday night, and blogged about the experience on the news outlet’s website. Read her post entitled “We take back the night… for ALL our rights!” here.
On this year’s International Women’s Day, we decided once again to take our actions to the streets to interact with people and raise awareness about women’s issues. After weeks of rehearsals, two groups performed over the weekend of March 6-7, 2010 “Invisible Theater” actions in several locations around Beirut. The scenes performed were about sexual [...]
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Nasawiya partnered up with progressive Beirut-based daily Al-AKhbar, putting the focus on women in its March 8, 2010 issue. Our members Leen Hashem and Sara Abu Ghazal contributed articles on sexual harassment (Juanito, the Neighborhood “Jagal” – Player) and racism and sexism in Lebanon (Lebanon and Women: Types of Female [...]
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