Dans les sociétés modernes, le système social repose sur des principes de valorisation de la dignité de l’être humain et de ses droits, et de l’égalité entre homme et femme. Cependant, dans la plupart des sociétés traditionnelles, la femme souffre toujours de discrimination sexuelle. Or les femmes représentent la moitié de la société, d’où ce […]
Category Archives: Women’s Roles and Situations
Mirror Mirror on the Wall…
Mirrors, such a shallow reflection… When you live in Lebanon, where physical beauty following particular standards has become your ticket to ‘success’ (fine marriage, fine job, good connections, more money,….) or at least your guarantee to be ‘accepted’ by others, the pressure can be often unbearable, leading to: Insecurities, Depression, Anxiety, Extreme Eating disorders, Narcissism, […]
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 […]
Like a Grain of Salt (انتم ملح الأرض)
In our colorful life of different shades of greens, reds and blues, we trace our individuality. We create the cocoon in which we survive and in it, is born our world of imagination, vision and dreams. Like a priceless treasure, we learn and grow to protect our inner richness and value. We are the […]
Thinking of joining the Lebanese University’s teaching force? Think again!!
This is what my colleague and I were told this morning, while trying to apply for teaching positions at the Lebanese University, proud of our respective 20+ pages CVs and countless publications. The secretary in charge of receiving the applications looked at us, laughing, cynically: “Why do you want to apply to this university? Professors […]
أين الإبداع؟
لقد بدأت فترة الإمتحانات في المدارس والجامعات في لبنان ومعها الخوف من السقوط والرغبة في النجاح. لا يتربى الطفل أو الطفلة على إتقان العمل الإبداعي، على إنتاج الفكر والعمل لأجل مصلحة الوطن، بل طمعاً في النجاح أو خوفاً من الفشل. يتربى الشاب أو الشابة على الترغيب في المكافأة والترهيب بالعقاب، والطمع في الجنة والخوف من […]
La guerre continue…
Cyclones de décadence, les exterminations se succèdent, les armes fusent de partout, plus l’humanité se sophistique, moins la folie s’estompe. Les périodes de paix? Des accidents de l’histoire, des fleuves de sang versé, la misère, l’hécatombe, et l’indignation ne peut rien y faire. La guerre continue… Et pourtant, l’hiver semble plier bagage… Dès les premières […]
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 […]