The Gravest Sin You declared Endless adoration, Now you kneel Seeking salvation. And the gift I bestowed on you Is now penance’ Sacrificial ewe. Down it sinks Casket in the soil. The pious infidel Pleads in turmoil, While luring Eve- Past sagacious, present fool, Am your mirror; The reflection of your soul. Watch the coward […]
Category Archives: Women’s Roles and Situations
Conversations these days?
Avoiding the traffic and the stressful driving in Beirut, I always attempt to take a cab to work, college, and anywhere I’m going. In my architectural engineering studies, Public Transportation was one of the advanced courses I had to research, arriving to the result that the Lebanese public transportation system needs a total makeover, and […]
باميلا شرابيه: ما لا يقتلك يجعلك أقوى
My interview (El Nashra Finance) about Red Lips High Heels and Women’s Rights. Excerpts: – هل واجهت صعوبات خلال مسيرتك المهنية؟ واجهت الكراهية نحو النساء، الضمنية والواضحة، اضافة الى التمييز على أساس الجنس، وليس فقط كناشطة، ولكن أيضا باعتباري أكاديمية في المجال الديني والذي يعتبر، في بلدنا، ومنطقة الشرق الأوسط، حكرا على “رجال” الدين. […]
How do mothers feel nowadays about the fashion industry, especially when it comes to childrena��s fashion?
When I was young, a little over a decade ago, my mother would be careful about how she dresses my sister and me. Girls would wear decent clothes. We wouldna��t see girls wearing tight t-shirts with explicit prints on them, we wouldna��t see girls wearing the shortest version of shorts or mini-skirts and we definitely […]
Toward Resilient Arab Societies
I was invited more than 10 years ago by an association of psychologists in Montreal (Quebec- Canada) to testify about my experience as a war survivor. The main theme was ‘Resilience’ and my hosts and colleagues defined it as having a positive attitude, optimism, and the ability to change one’s life even after a misfortune. […]
About the Crisis of Celibacy in Lebanon
JK, mid-40s, I’ve known him since 5 years now, he is in charge of the entertainment at our place; not his main job, he rather does it as a hobby. A very decent man, workaholic to the max and dependable as no one else, seeking a life partner, sometimes desperately, but not finding any. Straight […]
How married/divorced women are usually perceived!
The way society views married women is a shock to me. But then again, why should it surprise me? This society has no respect for anything, no respect for anything at all. Yes, I’ve been told on many occasions that there aren’t a lot of men who think like I do. Yes, Ia��m becoming more […]
"Weak, undependable, defective and inferiors" ? More than enough!
I have been a girl that lived in a conservative society for my whole life. Thank god, to a point my parents were a bit loose. But that doesn’t mean I have not seen what a cruel moral and physical treatment a woman receives. So next, I’m not going to talk about women’s right in […]
Rire ou pleurer? Mon opinion sur les droits des femmes au Liban
Après avoir lu une panoplie d’articles, jai decidé de présenter mon opinion sur les droits de la femme au Liban. Rire ou pleurer? Par où commencer? La violence à domicile, le harcèlement dans la rue, l’inexistence quasi totale de structures de soutien pour les femmes ayant quitté leur foyer? Toute la situation étant renforcée par la main-mise […]
L'obscurantisme disparaîtra avec la prise de responsabilité des femmes
La femme, enfermée dans des modèles traditionnels : l’épouse, la mère, la muse, la madone…, cherche à faire reconnaître son statut d’être humain libre et responsable, son originalité et son égalité avec l’homme. Quand on s’interroge sur la condition des femmes dans nos sociétés, on est frappé par la disparité des situations. Pour bien des raisons, […]