Today I woke up a Girl, I began my daily routine as usual; I cleaned up, brushed my teeth, combed my hair, I got dressed, and drove to the Campus. On my way there, a billboard on domestic violence caught my attention. Will a paper, or a law, solve the sexual discrimination issues? Well at […]
Category Archives: Women’s Roles and Situations
Le salut des femmes et de la société libanaises passe par nous!
“Je suis une femme libanaise.” Etant plus jeune, je croyais si fort à l’honneur et la fierté qui accompagnaient cette phrase. Aujourd’hui, je pourrais bien dire: “Je suis un objet made in Lebanon” et je pense que cela procurerait le même effet. Mon texte n’est pas objectif et ce n’est pas une simple présentation de […]
Women's Rights in Lebanon: Illusion or Reality?
Abusive partners, marital rape, domestic violence, does it sound familiar? Recently, media is covering even more of these tragedies that are affecting Lebanese women on a daily basis. Unfortunately, laws that protect women’s rights are out of question in this country due to several reasons: financial, social, and religious Many Lebanese women are housekeepers. They […]
Il est temps d'agir, de moderniser, d'évoluer!
Le Liban, un pays qui se détache de son identité Arabe que lui impose sa situation géographique, par la fierté qu’il accorde à son image démocratique ainsi que par les différentes réformes qu’a connu la société Libanaise, sous l’influence de l’Occident. Cependant, c’est toujours à travers un regard douteux, des gestes hésitants et des cris […]
Women's Rights are Human Rights
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 […]
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 […]
Do not open your legs… Women!
Welcome to Lebanon, the land of tabbouleh and hummus, sea and mountains, arak and wine. Welcome to the Mekka of plastic surgery and castration, schizophrenia and lethargy, hijab and short skirts, war, neo-feudalism, corruption and political-sectarian mafias and tribes… Welcome to a country where people magazines and soap operas continue to pigeonhole women as objects, […]
Keep your Voices Ringing against Domestic Violence!
“We knew all along that He was hitting her’, she said. “And you did nothing?’, I answered all perplexed. All what I got from her was a smirk and a nod from her head. That is what puzzles and perplexes: the ability to turn away from the atrocities of marital abuse, the constant convincing that […]
Why I’m against “Women’s Rights”
No, there is no typo in my title. Yes, I know that this article is written for a “women’s rights in the middle east” website. I’m against the expression “women’s rights” because it implicates in itself an implicit differentiation between men and women at the level of their rights. Merely labeling these rights “women’s” highlights […]