I have always been close-mouthed when someone asks me “What do you think about women’s rights in Lebanon?” Shouldn’t we have human rights before thinking about those of women’s? It is true that women’s rights are somehow worse than men’s, but they are not THAT worse. Whether it is a girl, woman, boy, man or […]
Category Archives: Personal Stories
I’m a Lebanese woman whose rights are taken away from her and a woman that is treated as an inferior human being compared to men
People always ask me about the way I see myself, how I can describe myself and what do I look forward to in the future. Well to sum it all up, I’m a Lebanese woman whose rights are taken away from her and a woman that is treated as an inferior human being compared to […]
Mon opinion sur les droits des femmes au Liban
Les droits des femmes! Sujet très vaste et problématique qui fait couler beaucoup d’encre au niveau mondial, et de plus en plus au Liban. Pour ma part en tant qu’étudiant universitaire, la discrimination envers les femmes existe dans mon pays, tant dans les lois que les pratiques, et ce en dépit de l’article constitutionnel sur […]
A glimpse at the Battle of the Sexes
I recently got into this new life; the working class. And it is in this domain that Ia��ve seen and heard of sexual harassment, any kind of harassment actually. It is also in this domain that Ia��ve met young men and women, who would be considered to be the youth and part of the upcoming […]
How I Do Feminism
I will not focus here on answering the question of ‘why’ doing feminism in a closed circle with tiny windows, but I will definitely talk about the ‘how’ – in fact, the ‘how’ is related to the ‘why’ -: while seeing and defining ‘change’ from different yet complementary perspectives – as a professor and academic […]
Soulevons-nous ! Revendiquons nos droits !
Permettez-moi de partager ces quelques histoires vraies, tirées du vécu de bien de libanaises, et certainement que d’autres femmes à travers le monde arabe peuvent s’y retrouver… Que dire lorsqu’une mère de six enfants est répudiée par son mari après 30 ans de mariage, sans pouvoir emporter quoique ce soit, car celui-ci avait envie d’une […]
"Against the Current" Jihadist!
I am both Lebanese and Canadian. I was born in Lebanon, survived the 80s physical war, left for Montreal in 1999 to pursue my studies, was stuck in Lebanon during the Summer 2006 war, and decided, along with my husband, to leave Canada and live again in Lebanon. I am what many define as ‘against […]
Au Liban, «le meilleur pays au monde», le viol reste un acte «banal» !
En novembre j’ai reçu pour mon anniversaire (célébré à Montréal où j’habite) un super cadeau de la part de mes ami(e)s et de ma famille : un voyage de presque 40 jours en Inde… Arrivée au Liban, et à l’annonce de ce voyage et des préparatifs qui en découlent, un commentaire commun est resté « […]
I am a Heel Wearer and my Footwear is Feminist !!
One of the questions many women ask me when they look at me or when they read ‘Red Lips High Heels’ is: how can you say you are feminist when you wear red lipstick and high heels? Strange how I have to defend my feminism within a movement fighting for women’s rights. True we do […]
I am sick and tired of conforming!
I am sick and tired of being an exploited objectified woman and citizen. I am Lebanese and in my society, beauty standards changed in the last 10-15 years. We were busy with war until the early 1990s, not paying attention to physical characteristics. When we stopped killing each other with weapons, we started a devastating competition, […]