Join us this Saturday, February 19 at 11am – 1pm at the Nasawiya House for a workshop on the basics of film editing. You will learn how to take digital footage from your video camera or phone and edit it using a computer program. Bring your laptops which should have iMovie or Windows Movie Maker [...]
With summer kicking into full gear, our Take Back the Tech workshops are back. On Saturday, June 19, 2010 and Saturday, June 26, 2010, we’re holding a 2-part Graphics 101 workshop with graphic designer Maya El-Helou. Each session will take place between 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM at our office in Mar Mikhael (call 01-447192 [...]
Arab Techies and Social Media Exchange (SMEX) have teamed up to host a meeting in Lebanon on 11-15 May 2010. The objective is for women techies to meet up, exchange skills and ideas, discuss collaborations, talk about tech from a gender perspective, and network. Our member Nadine Moawad met with Jessica Dheere from SMEX last [...]
As part of our recently launched Take Back the Tech initiative, we’re holding a blogging workshop entitled “Why Blog? How to Blog? And Then?” on Saturday, 10 April 2010. Run by software developer and blogger Liliane Assaf, the workshop will take place between 11:00 AM and 1:oo PM at our office in Mar Mikhael (call [...]
After a series of successful workshops on empowering young women to use ICTs for social change and an equally successful gender initiative at ArabNetME, Nasawiya is thrilled to announce the launch of Take Back the Tech in Beirut. We are now part of a global collective of organizations, feminists, and geeks working on reclaiming information [...]
“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 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 [...]
Busying itself like a bee, Nasawiya is holding a series of events and workshops this week. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – Book Club – 7:00 PM – T-Marbouta Nasawiya is kicking off its Book Club (Kira’at Nasawiya) with a discussion on women and quota in light of the newly adopted 20% quota for women in [...]
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