Our feminist webspace Sawt Al Niswa (The Women’s Voice) is holding an intensive video-making workshop, designed and offered by artist and Hampshire College, USA, video professor, Kara Lynch.

Description and Requirements:

The video-making workshop will provide participants with basic video production skills, including how to use a camera and microphones, and how to plan, shoot, and edit a short video.  The workshop will take place over 5 weeks and will require participants to commit to 6 hours per week for the duration of the workshop (2 hours per one weekday evening and 4 hours on a weekend). The workshop is free of charge and is open to all social media activists who are willing to commit to making videos for Sawt Al Niswa.

How to Apply:

Send an email by 12 June 2010 to editor@sawtalniswa.com answering the following questions:

1. What’s your full name?
2. How old are you?
3. What do you do in life?
4. Why are you interested in joining the workshop?
5. Are you willing to commit to the entirety of the course?
6. Are you willing to create 3 videos for Sawt Al Niswa?
7. Do you have a video camera?

Workshop Schedule:

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 7 PM – 9 PM
Saturday, 19 June 2010 10 AM – 2 PM
Tuesday 22 June 2010 7 PM – 9 PM
Saturday, 26 June 2010 10 AM – 2 PM
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 7 PM – 9 PM
Saturday, 3 July 2010 10 AM – 2 PM
Tuesday, 6 July, 2010 7 PM – 9 PM
Saturday, 10 July 2010 10 AM – 2 PM
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 7 PM – 9 PM

Location : Nasawiya’s office
Mar Mikhael, Rmeyl, Jaara bulding, 4th floor

Tel: 01-447 192

About Sawt Al Niswa:

As feminist publications, discourses and presence are gaining momentum in the Arab Region, Sawt Al Niswa would like to function as a pool of knowledge, hosting the various social and political commentaries of women in the process of questioning the kind of feminist discourse they want to speak and express themselves through. The voice(s) within the website contribute to the construction of an Arab feminist discourse reflecting a spectrum of Arab reality(ies).

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 three monthly editions, before the editorial staff realized they had to make some changes to be able to keep it running.

“We had very limited resources,” explains SAN editor Sara Abu Ghazal, “but we knew it had a lot of potential because it was highly in demand, and people kept asking us to make it available online. So after much thinking and tweaking, we decided to turn into an e-zine to make it more accessible, more frequent, and more interactive without burning ourselves out in the process.”

SAN will be updated regularly with posts, articles, features, opinion pieces and commentaries in both Arabic and English.

The website is designed to function as a pool of knowledge. It hosts the various social and political commentaries by women, while questioning the kind of feminist discourse they want to speak and express themselves through.

The voice(s) within the website contribute to the construction of an Arab feminist discourse, reflecting a spectrum of Arab reality (ies), the same way Nasawiya and friends in the region reflect on Arab feminism attempts.

Sawt Al Niswa welcomes submissions investigating any topic from a feminist lens by writers, artists and activists in the Arab World, be they articles, reports, opinion pieces, photo and/or written essays, and artwork.

Please contact the editors at editor[@]sawtalniswa.com for more information about submissions and guidelines.

A group of feminists at the Feminist Collective have launched the long-awaited “Sawt Al Niswa” (The Women’s Voice), a do-it-yourself zine in Arabic that features opinions and stories from today’s feminists.

The first issue is now on sale for LBP 1,000 ($0.66) and has been going with us around the streets on Women’s Day. We’ll upload it as a PDF file soon on our website.

Alf, alf mabrouk li Sawt al Niswa!