Nasawiya cordially invites you to the Awards Ceremony “the Crying Cedar” presented to the worst sexist and racist people in Lebanon, as many as they are in this country. The event is set to take place on March 8 at 9 pm. Please RSVP – Formal dress required. This invitation is exclusive to Nasawiya [...]
The women’s movement in Lebanon will be celebrating International Women’s Day in various activities. This event page will keep you posted with latest plans for the week. On Thursday, March 8 at noon, there will be a sit in organized by many women’s rights groups and supporting NGOs calling for full rights for women in [...]
How widespread is family violence in Lebanon? Let’s try and crunch some numbers. Kafa published a study a few months ago on official complaints and court cases of family violence in Mount Lebanon, one of Lebanon’s six governorates (mohaafazaat). A team of lawyers went through the official records of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office (Al Niyaba [...]
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 – [...]
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