Photos: Domestic Workers Celebrate Labor Day
There is no Labor Day without Migrant Domestic Workers
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Nadine Moussa’s Presidential Plan
“This presidential plan aims at accomplishing the following goals setting the path for achieving a long-term vision that aspires to make drastic changes in Lebanon”
Read MoreFADE IN:, the Lebanese Cinema Studies Company
FADE IN: is a Lebanese Cinema Studies Company whose mission is “to help artists express themselves through motion-picture and writing”.
Read MoreMaroun Baghdadi in the Limelight
“Maroun Baghdadi’s portrayal of everyday Lebanese during the 70s and 80s evokes haunting images of a nation of fractured identities.”
Read MoreWorkers’ Day Parade and Festival for Migrant Workers
“The Anti-Racism Movement and Fi Chi Ghalat are organizing the 4th annual Workers’ Day Parade in celebration of Labor Day, demanding better legal protection for Domestic Workers in Lebanon suffering from the Kafala System.”
Read More“Your Right to Self Care” video by the Marsa Sexual Health Center
“In our patriarchal society, Lebanese women are still restricted by ‘moral’ guidelines that are rarely, if ever, applied to men.”
Read MoreWhat do AUB students think of the Civil War?
“As part of their Civil War Memorial Week, A Rupture Of Amnesia, AUB’s Secular Club went around campus to ask students about the civil war.”
Read MoreLebanese Civil War Memorial Week at AUB
“A Rupture Of Amnesia: The Lebanese Civil War Memorial Week is an event organized by AUB’s Secular Club to give you a “chance to see the Civil war, that has long been haunting us, in a new light.””
Read MoreSyrian Man thanks “brothers in Lebanon who have opened their hearts to Syrians”
“There is something truly bittersweet about this picture of a Syrian man thanking the Lebanese Anti-racist activists that are behind the “Campaign in Support of Syrians Facing Racism”
Read MoreTomorrow We Will See
“Tomorrow We Will See” offers a window into Lebanon’s flourishing creative culture through the perspective of ten Lebanese artists
Read More“Discover Monot-Huvelin” – Achrafieh 2020
“Achrafieh 2020 is bringing us its 5th Car-free day in Monot-Huvelin”
Read MoreWitness: “I’m being held as a slave in Lebanon” – #NabatiehSlaves
Ivory Coast-based Koaci.com has learned that 6 women are currently held in slavery conditions in Nabatieh, South Lebanon within a “Mafia-like” network. The following is a rough English translation of the original article in French written 3 days ago. Two Togolese, two Burkinabé and two Ghanaian have been kidnapped for the past week [now 10 […]
Read MoreHarry Chun: Fadi’s Story
The following piece tells the story of how Fadi, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, was able to send his engagement ring to his fiancee living in Germany. It is a story of hope, perseverance and above all, love. Who would’ve thought that I would come back to Europe following my coverage of the Syrian […]
Read MoreLebanon featured in All Love is Equal | Interview
A couple of weeks ago, we were all surprised to see that Lebanon was among the locations used by Braden Summers in his “All Love is Equal” photoshoot showcasing 15 LGBT couples from around the world. The Lebanese one features two beautiful women modeling as a Lesbian couple in a traditional Lebanese house. I was […]
Read MoreLeila for Syria: A Fundraising Concert
Sawa for Syria is teaming up with Mashroo’ Leila and C U NXT Sat‘s DJs to raise funds for Syrian refugees.
Read MoreArab Activists Against Domestic Violence in Lebanon #ProtectWomenLB #March8
We are 15 Arab bloggers, intellectuals, activists, and dreamers currently meeting in Amman for the #ASM2014 Social Media training and workshop organized by 7amleh in coordination with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and 7iber. We just have a message to all those joining the KAFA protest today at 2pm against Domestic Violence in Lebanon, […]
Read MoreKAFA protest against Domestic Violence (Photos)
I will be receiving photos from today’s KAFA protest from different participants and will add everything here. Quick reminder: It starts at 2pm in front of the National Museum of Lebanon. Event link. Many NGOs and independent activists are planning on participating Hashtags on Twitter are #ProtectWomenLB and #March8 + #Lebanon if you have space […]
Read MoreJoin KAFA’s #March8 protest against Domestic Violence
A series of Domestic Violence It’s been 8 months since the death of Roula Yaacoub, the 33 year old mother who was beaten to death. After her death, we found out that her husband regularly beat her and her 5 children throughout their marriage. Seven month later, last February the 4th, 10 days before millions […]
Read MoreSave Achrafieh from the Fouad Boutros Project
The “Save Achrafieh” protest against the Fouad Boutros Highway project took place on Saturday the 1st of March at 3pm in front of EDL Mar Mikhael. The second one will take place on Sunday the 2nd of March at 11 am near the Maronite Archbishopric of Rmeil, Achrafieh. Based on various studies done by NGOs and […]
Read MoreKhalil Gibran on Lebanon: Pity the Nation
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering […]
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Hummus For Thought 