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 [...]
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، [...]
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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 [...]
It is this time of year again. After the beautiful demonstration against rape which was organized on January 14th, it is time to focus our efforts on planning for International Women’s Day 2012, coming up soon on March 8th. So anyone who is interested and has ideas to share with others is welcome to join [...]
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi and produced in 2004, Turtles can Fly is a must watch 98 minute drama about war, landmines and love. Screening at Nasawiya, Thursday at 7 pm. Anyone and everyone [...]
Dear Friends, a call for action to Lila. Lila, a mother of two from Nepal found dead in Beirut, as you may have already read in Guardian. This Tuesday , we are meeting in Nasawiya at 8 pm to join forces and plan action against this frightful crime. Kindly share this event to spread the [...]
People from across Lebanon are invited to join a candlelight vigil to remember all the victims of the collapsed building in Achrafieh, and especially those who were not paid proper respects because they were not Lebanese. The vigil, located in Fassouh area next to the site of the incident at 6:30pm on Wednesday January 25, [...]
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