في معظم الأوقات اكتب يومياتي،لكن لن أحاول ولو مرةً واحدة الرجوع إليها وإعادة قرأتها.لكن تختلف المناسبة اليوم.سأروي قصتي لمرة الأولى،بجرأةٍ وصدق لتأكيد لكم مدى أهمية وجود أي قانون يحمي المرأة من العنف ومن هذا المجتمع البدائي. ما أصعب التكلم عن حدث لطالما حاولت جاهداً غض النظر عنه ونسيانه…كانت عينيها تدمعان وهي تحاول تذكر ما اهانى […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good human beings to do nothing…
As I was watching TV the other night, I came across the trailer of “Fifth Estate”, the movie based on the sequence of events lived by the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. The trailer ends with “you want the truth; you should seek it out yourself. That’s what they fear the most, YOU”. Right after […]
Pour la cause des droits des femmes au Liban: quelle révolution des mentalités?
Je publie ci-dessous un résumé d’une partie de mon intervention à la Table-Ronde organisée par Women in Front le samedi 9 novembre 2013 au Salon Francophone du Livre de Beyrouth: “La cause des droits des femmes: avancées et obstacles – France, Maghreb, Liban”. La partie des acquis et non-acquis, ainsi que celle des obstacles, seront […]
Let the Desire of Speaking Freedom become a harness…
“Censorship” comes from the Latin word censor. In the 5th c. C.E. Rome, the censor had two duties: to count the citizens (census) and to supervise their morals. In Greek communities, the ideal of good governance included shaping the character of the people. Two of the most famous cases of censorship in ancient times are that of Socrates, […]
Human Rights in Lebanon: There is a lot of work left to be done!
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened” (John F. Kennedy). When I first decided to write about human rights in Lebanon, I was not aware of how important this subject is and how much it affects our daily life. However, the more I read, the more it […]
Lebanese Youth needs to receive specific attention: the generation that inherits the experience of violence as still living memory!
“You cannot erase everything and start again … We need to continue (…). Suffering is everywhere here, there, everywhere. Life is everywhere here, there, everywhere. Ignorance kills it (…). We must not drown. Dig in and come out alive. Write while I am still alive”.[i] The war in Lebanon, especially since the 1970s, had – and still has – an impact on individuals and communities. It inflicted psychological and physical harm, and undermined social relationships, […]
Libanaise qu'à moitié…
Dans un pays où l’opinion publique semble croire à une égalité établie entre hommes et femmes et où quelques citoyens comparent notre situation à celles des pays européens (comme le montre entre autre la vidéo publiée par l’Orient-le-Jour intitulée « CONDITIONS DE LA FEMME AU LIBAN : MYTHE ET REALITES»), le Liban vient d’acquérir en 2013 la très « HONORABLE » 123 […]
“Women’s Rights”: Cute Han?
Lebanon, July 4th 2013, Rim Zakaria and Zaynab Awada fled their abusive husbands to take part in a press conference organized by the NGO KAFA-enough violence and exploitation… China, 2011, Wu Hei (which isn’t her real name), a successful woman who earns almost one million rmb (around 150 000$) walks out of an abusive marriage […]
Mon entrevue avec Myrna Azar Najjar sur les droits des femmes au Liban
Le Liban a adhéré à la Charte des Nations Unies qui mentionne que tous les êtres humains sont libres, égaux et possèdent les mêmes droits sans discrimination entre hommes et femmes. Malheureusement, les droits des femmes sont différents de ceux des hommes. La femme était (et est encore) dévalorisée à plusieurs niveaux. Afin de mieux […]