Events

Lebanon Support cordially invites you to a round table discussion on: Rethinking labour rights interventions for women in Lebanon. Presentation by Lebanon Support’s consultant, Dalya Mitri. With discussants: Manar Zaayter, Lawyer and activist at the Lebanese Democratic Women Gathering (LDWG)Tina Holtgaard Oulie, Associate Expert, Gender Equality and Decent Work, International Labor Organization (ILO) Women workers in Lebanon are discriminated against in term of employment opportunities, equality in wages, benefits, and sick and maternity leave. Furthermore, the majority of working women are...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a round table discussion on: Local expertise and global packages of aid: the transformative role of volunteerism and local expert knowledge of aid during Lebanon's July war. A to-be-published case study prepared by Lebanon Support, with discussants: Kamel Mohanna, President of Amel organisation Fayrouz Salameh, Executive director of Mouvement Social This case study will discuss the relationship between volunteerism, political/intersubjective transformation and the emergence of  local expert knowledge during war and emergency. Drawing from different...

Lebanon Support cordially invites you to a round table discussion on: Donor policies and local actors: complementarity or dependency? Women’s organisations in Lebanon and their relationships with international donors. Presentation by Lebanon Support’s consultant, Dalya Mitri. With discussants:Sara Abou Ghazalis a Palestinian-Lebanese writer who mostly works on feminist knowledge production. She is part of the collective Sawt Al Niswa. Stine Hornis the Deputy Head of Mission, Norwegian Embassy in Lebanon. Charbel Maydaais the director of Mosaic organisation. Women organisations are generally...

The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support Cordially invite you to a talk on: Trajectories of young Arab and European Islamists: the inevitable jihadist radicalisation? By: Mr Mohamed-Ali Adraoui is a political and social scientist working on contemporary International Relations, the Islamic World, Political Islam and Salafist currents. He completed his PhD in Sciences Po Paris in November 2011. His dissertation, “Beyond Discourse, Salafism in France, Socialization or Rupture of a Social Phenomenon?”, is an analysis of the emergence of a new face of Islam in France...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a round table discussion on: Local actors versus global humanitarian interventions: the case of Samidoun during the July war on Lebanon. A to-be-published case study prepared by Lebanon Support, with discussants: Dr Karam Karam is a political scientist. He holds a PhD from l'Institut d’Études politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, France. He has written several books and papers on civil society and political parties in Lebanon. He served as the head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies for several years and is currently the Head of Research at the Common...

Too many reasons to celebrate! Lebanon Support would like to invite you to a celebration of its almost ten years of existence and work. Since it was founded in 2006, Lebanon Support has launched two online platforms – Daleel Madani, the civil society portal which has over 1,300 organisations registered and on the directory; and CSKC, the Civil Society Knowledge Centre (launched in 2013) which is an online space for original tools, research, and analysis addressing civil society issues in Lebanon. Lebanon Support’s latest endeavour is the Civil Society Review, a yearly peer-reviewed publication...

Masculinity-under-threat: the de- and re- politicization of women’s and sexual rights organizations in Lebanon in the wake of the War on Terror Anthony Rizk has been involved in sexuality and gender activism since 2009 and served on the Board of Directors of Helem in 2010-2011. He works as a research assistant in medical anthropology and social epidemiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut.   Ghassan Makarem is a civil society and political activist, who had been engaged in LGBT activism in Lebanon and the region since 2001. He is a co-signatory of Helem's...

Feminisms in Lebanon: A dynamic positioning in relation to patriarchy and a renewal within the “Arab Spring” Bernadette Daouis a feminist militant and researcher     Discussant: Vincent Geisseris a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research currently based at the French Institute for the Near East Beirut (IFPO). He leads a research program on "Women and Power in Lebanon." Since 2005, he is the chair of the Center for Information and Study on International Migration (CIEMI) and editor of the journal Migrations Société. The research explores the different waves of the...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a round table discussion on: The Limits of Dissidence in Gender Activism in Lebanon. with:Ms Sabiha Alloucheis a third year PhD candidate in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London from where she obtained her MA in Gender Studies (2012). Her current research examines the timing and increased visibility of “dissident bodies” in Lebanon - defined as men and women who operate beyond Lebanon's norms of sex and sexuality. Using qualitative methods, her research incorporates narratives of ‘sex encounters’ in order to show how marginal sexualities are re...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a round table discussion on : Transwomen’s Navigation of Arrest and Detention in Beirut: A case study   with: Ms. Adriana Qubaiaa PhD candidate in the department of Gender Studies in the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Through ethnographic research in Beirut, she is exploring the mechanisms of gendering political activisms, including the interactions between politics of queer (in)visibility and sexual identity formations and negotiations. Mr. Ahmad Salehworks in harm reduction and outreach at Skoun and is a longterm sexual rights...