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Background Paper | May 2010 “Scratch the Past – This is OUR  Soundtrack: Hip Hop in Lebanon”Angie Nassar In Lebanon’s cultural politics of music, hip hop emerges as an instrument for contesting inherited forms of meaning by socializing alternative discourse - with its own ideological terms, creative yearnings and lexicon of ideas - into the public sphere. Perhaps only a small interruption against the repetitive, exacting beats of the social order, but this is not about volume or even flow. It is about testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of what is considered acceptable. Hip hop in...

Background Paper - May 2010 Youth Mobilization in Egypt: New Trends and OpportunitiesDina Shehata  Civic participation among youth in Egypt is alarmingly low. According to a recent survey, which confirms the findings of various earlier surveys, only 2% of youth are participating in volunteer work, only 5% participate in youth centers and sports clubs, political parties, unions and associations and housing and school boards, and only 16% of all eligible young voters voted in a previous election (The Population Council, 2010). In spite of these grim statistics, there are some indications that...

Key Findings of Research Paper Produced as Part of the  AUB Tobacco Control Research Group | April 2010 The Economics of Tobacco in Lebanon: An Estimation of the Social Costs of Tobacco Consumption (Key Findings)Jad Chaaban, Nadia Naamani, and Nisreen Salti This document presents the key findings of the social costs of tobacco consumption in Lebanon.

This document is the outcome of a workshop organised by UNRWA on the 31st of March 2010 on “Community of Practice in Building Referral Systems for Women Victims of Violence”.

Executive summary of a survey conducted by UNICEF. Objectives of the study: - To assess the magnitude of the problem of violence at home, in schools, in institutions and in the neighborhood of camp environment.

هذه الدراسة تم انجازها عام 2010، من قبل عزّة شرارة بيضون، بدعم من منظمتي أوكسفام برطانيا(OXFAM) و كفى عنف و استغلال و بتمويل من UNTRUSTED FUND ضمن إطار مشروع "تطوير مقاربات و استراتيجيات العمل مع الرجال لمناهضة العنف المنزلي في الشرق الاوسط".

Around the world, gender-based violence (GBV) reflects and reinforces inequalities between men and women. It is entrenched by power relations and control, cultures of silence and denial, political and cultural apathy, and affects men and women throughout their lives.

Parliamentary elections of 2009 and the year 2008 in review. The evenings of tuesday and Wednesday, April 7/8 marked the last day to register as a candidate for the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections scheduled on Sunday June 7, 2009.

مذكرات للباحثين و صناع القرار #1 | تشرين الثاني 2008  شباب مصريون يعيدون اكتشاف المشاركة المدنية، ويؤسسون لأشكال جديدة من الخدمة العامبربارة إبراهيم يمثل جيل الحركات الشبابية المصرية الحالي أكبر المجموعات الشبابية التي تخوض معركة اثبات الوجود في العالم العربي. أدواتهم تتراوح بين الخدمات الاجتماعية التقليدية، و تقنيات الاتصال الجديدة في سبيل مواجهة الحظر المفروض عليهم من قبل الأنظمة السياسية والعائلية. وهذه الحركات هي التجربة التي سلطت الضوء عليها الدكتورة بربارة ابراهيم ومجموعة أخرى من الباحثين في مصر ويسود في عالمنا ”اجتاه لمعاملة الشباب وقضايا الشباب بطريقة جد موعظية، ومبسطة،“ بحسب إبراهيم،...

Research and Policy Memo #1 | November 2008 Young Egyptians reinvent civic engagement, leading to new forms of public serviceBarbara Ibrahim As the largest ever cohort of young people in the Arab World struggles to find its place in society, youth are forging arenas for public participation that draw upon new media and traditional social service. Initiated by young people, this movement responds to the exclusion they feel from family and state structures that block their public participation. It is a new brand of youth movements that Dr. Barbara Ibrahim and other researchers have identified in...

ان كتاب " العنف القانوني ضد المرأة في لبنان قوانين الأحوال الشخصية والعقوبات" هو عبارة عن ثلاثة دراسات قانونية تم تنفيذها من قبل باحثات قانونيات بالتعاون مع التجمع النسائي الديمقراطي اللبناني في اكتوبر 2008، و هدفها تسليط الضوء على مواضيع العنف ضد المرأة في قوانين الأحوال الشخ

This report, compiled by Pernilla Ouis and Tove Myhrman, is a comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.

The impetus for this case study arose in the “Advocacy for Reproductive Health” project, funded by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and implemented by The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), a non-governmental organizat

This paper reviews what is known about more and less effective—or at least promising—approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.

This paper provides a brief overview of what is known about effective strategies for involving men in violence prevention efforts from the perspective of men who are recipients of anti-violence programs as well as from the men who provide them.