Remember the famous Women of Egypt photo album? Well, now a team has formed to turn this photo album into a series of short-videos. Two weekly videos in the form of profiles will be produced and posted on a website that we are preparing for the project. The videos will be in Arabic with English/Spanish [...]
The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University and The Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus cordially invite you to a lecture titled: “Why Do We Still Need Women Studies?” by Professor Willy Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Place: The Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut, at [...]
Today, there has been some important legal developments related to women’s rights in the Penal Code and Labor Law, including honor crimes, labor tax, social security. We will investigate and write more about the details of these changes soon, but for now, please refer to the following links for more information: http://www.aliwaa.com/Default.aspx?NewsID=226001 http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/12246 http://www.assafir.com/Article.aspx?EditionId=1847&ChannelId=43478&ArticleId=1592&Author http://ritachemaly.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/congratulations-lebanese-women/ [...]
Revolution’s women strongly participate in a march against “sectarian strife” and condemn being used in it due to their religion (Cairo, May 10, 2011) A large number of Egyptian women participated in a march entitled “No to sectarian strife” which appeared with its ugly face in the district of Imbaba. They participated in this march [...]
نساء الثورة يشاركن بقوة في مسيرة “ضد الفتنة الطائفية ويدنّ استغلالهن دينياً (القاهرة، 10 مايو 2011) شارك عدد كبير من النساء المصريات في مسيرة ” لا للفتنة الطائفية ” التي أطلت علي مصر بوجهها القبيح من حي إمبابة، للتأكيد علي قيم المواطنة والتسامح ولدرء الفتن التي شهدتها المنطقة ومناطق مختلفة في مصر بعد الثورة . [...]
We call on all women’s organizations heading to the CSW next week in New York to endorse and respect the following statement from women’s NGOs in Egypt. Statement from the Coalition of Women’s NGOs in Egypt Cairo, February 20 2011 Despite the fall of some of the pillars of the Egyptian regime and the stepping [...]
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