Join us this Thursday at Nasawiya for the screening of an amazing movie which was out in 2011, ‘Circumstance’. The movie is about a wealthy Iranian family and its struggle to contain a teenager’s growing sexual rebellion and her brother’s dangerous obsession. It’s a very real and beautiful movie about the reality of Iranian women, [...]
It’s a shocking number, yes. But it’s true. On average, one woman was killed every month as a direct result of family violence between May 2010 – May 2011. These are the murders you read about in scarce lines in the papers which usually go something like: A.B. killed his wife, S.B in some town [...]
Nasawiya and AFE (Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality) are pleased to invite you to the book launch/signing of ’3aroos Amman’, a novel by young Jordanian blogger, Fadi Zaghmout The event will take place at Nasawiya space on Tuesday (next week), February 21st starting 7 PM and will include a few readings from the book [...]
Dearest Nasawiyas and friends of Nasawiyas and friends of friends of Nasawiya… Nasawiya would like to extend an invitation to celebrate the non celebration of Valentines day This Friday the 17th we are throwing a party of real unconditional love. We dont want your dozens of red roses, nor your boxes of chocolate, nor any [...]
This Friday, Nasawiya is delighted to invite Mireille Astore for an informal discussion, entitled ‘The Maternal Abject and other Stories’ about how autobiography intersects art. Mireille Astore is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. She studied the Sciences at the University [...]
Please spread this infographic among your circles. NorLevo (morning after pill / Plan B/ emergency contraception) has been off the Lebanese market since October 2011, and this (the Yuzpe Method) is what could be used instead. Emergency contraception is birth control that prevents pregnancy after unsafe sex. You can use emergency contraception right away – [...]
نرى أنفسنا كمجموعة نسوية جزء لا يتجزأ من كل حراك مدني ومستقل عن أطراف السلطة، خاصة وإن حمل هذا الحراك شعارات نراها من مبادئنا الأساسية والتي نناضل من أجلها كالمساواة، العلمانية والعدالة الاجتماعية. لقد آن الأوان لكي نتحرك كمواطنين ومواطنات، وكعاملين وعاملات حرمنا لسنوات طوال من أبسط حقوقنا الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والسياسية. على الرغم من ذلك، [...]
نرجو نشر الرقم الخاص بالتبليغ عن أيّ تعدٍّ جسدي أو معنوي على العمّال الأجانب في لبنان Please spread the word.
One wonders if any of these people on MTV have ever entered a Palestinian refugee camp. As one tweep remarked “The way these people are talking on MTV you’d think Palestinians in Lebanon lived in palaces and it was the Lebanese who lived in refugee camps.” About 400,000 Palestinians live in overcrowded refugee camps all [...]
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