Events

FEMED, Lebanese Centre for Human Rights, the Association SOLID and the Committee of the Families of the Persons Kidnapped or Disappeared would like to welcome you to the following event: Fourth Euro-Mediterranean Conference of the Family Associations of the Disappeared on the subject of “Enforced Disappearances, Truth and Fight against impunity” The Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) is organizing, together with the Lebanese associations affiliated to FEMED and with its network of family associations of the disappeared located on both sides of the...

يتشرف منتدى النساء الفلسطنيات في لبنان بدعوتكم لحضور ندوة حول: أثر الوضع الأمني، الاجتماعي والاقتصادي على المرأة الفلسطينية في لبنان وذلك ضمن المشروع: التمكين، التوظيف، المناصرة، ومعالجة عدم المساواة الجندرية للاجئات الفلسطينيات في لبنان الممول من الاتحاد الأوروبي والمنفذ من قبل Association Najdeh الزمان: يوم الخميس الواقع فيه 21 تشرين الثاني 2013 الساعة الثانية عشر ظهراً المكان: صيدا، مخيم عين الحلوة، جمعية النجدة الاجتماعية (مركز التأهيل المهني)  

نظراً لنزوح ما يقرب 12،000 شخص من سوريا إلى عرسال في البقاع خلال الأيام الماضية، سنقوم بجمع المستلزمات التالية و توزيعها خلال الأسبوع المقبل: المستلزمات: فرشات حرامات ثياب كفوف صوف، طواقي(برانيط) صوف، كلساتات، و شالات نظيفية بحالة جيدة و صالحة للاستخدام حليب أطفال (للأعمار المختلفة) حفاضات (للأعمار و الأحجام المختلفة) ملابس أطفال في حالة جيدة سيتم جمع هذه المستلزمات بدءاً من يوم الاثنين الواقع في 18-11-2013 في النقاط التالية: نسوية كافيه: مار مخايل، بعد شركة الكهرباء بـحوالي ١٠٠ متر...بعد محطة البنزين (المنار) شمالاً، ثم يميناً بعد مقهى شابلين للمعلومات، الاتصال على 65 49 62 76 في حال...

The Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) cordially invites to an introductory session about Civic Activism delivered by the Youth Economic Forum (YEF) on November 14, 2013 at 4.00 pm in Room 310, West Hall. If you are interested to attend, kindly send your details (name, contact number, major) to ccecs@aub.edu.lb to reserve your seat. Register now as places are limited! For further information, contact us on Ext. 4430/1 or send us to ccecs@aub.edu.lb

Urgent Call before Bulldozers Demolition of Mar Mikhael’s - Massaad Stairs! This is a call to motivated individuals to join us save our capital’s memory from rampant and barbaric development... To pressure the municipality to reverse its decision of the demolition, the neighborhood’s residents called for a sit-it next Thursday, November 14, at 4 pm. They asked civil society organizations and preservation activists to stand by them in this campaign to defend the Massad stairs. WE WILL SAY: NO for Bulldozers NO for Demolition NO for Mafiosity YES for Saving Beirut Heritage YES for Achrafieh...

القضاة في مصر وتونس، بين قواعد المهنة وضرورات السياسية (2000-2012)   عمل بحثي لنزار صاغية وسامر غمرون من "المفكرة القانونية"   يسرّ المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات – فرع بيروت،  دعوتكم للمشاركة في حلقة نقاشية يعرض فيها الباحثان سامر غمرون ونزار صاغية (من "المفكرة القانونية") دراستهما الميدانية حول "القضاة في مصر وتونس، بين قواعد المهنة وضرورات السياسية (2000-2012)". تُعقد الحلقة في مقر المركز، يوم الثلاثاء 12 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر 2013، تمام الساعة السادسة مساءً. بعد التعقيب على البحث، يُشارك في النقاش مجموعة من الباحثين والناشطين العاملين في المجالات الحقوقية والاجتماعية والسياسية...

ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality, in collaboration with Dar Al Mussawir and Zakira and with the financial support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Lebanon, is pleased to invite photographers in Lebanon to take part in a photography initiative entitled “Picturing Gender Equality”. This initiative is open to all photographers residing in Lebanon and it aims at depicting positive masculinity in everyday life in Lebanon. All selected photographs will be exhibited over a ceremony in December in the presence of more than 250 representatives of UN organizations, International & local NGOs...

MENA+SocialGood: Technology for Social Good in the Arab World An interactive virtual Global Summit on the role of the internet, social media & technology play in enabling Social Good and shaping the future of the Arab World. ~~~~ Main Event Hub: Technology Lab, Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington DC, +25 speakers participating globally through Cisco partnership, +15 independently organized meet ups around the world, +30,000 participants, +400,000 engaging via social media, active ‘how to' sessions. Join a meet up in your city or join register to join us online! www...

Dear LEA Members and Friends, The Lebanese Economic Association (LEA) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) are pleased to invite you to attend their conference: “Conference on Socio-Economic Impacts of the Syrian Conflict on the Lebanese Economy” You can find the agenda of the conference on the following link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4moctUphHLZTTRIOHJZRHcxdGs/edit?usp=sh… Simultaneous interpretation is available for English and Arabic. Kindly RSVP on 03- 74 76 84 or on info@leb-econ.org We look forward to your participation. Sincerely, The LEA Team   تتشرف الجمعية...

Eliane Raheb in collaboration with ASM (Alternative Student Movement) invites you to attend a special screening Sleepless are the nights of Assaad Shaftari, a former high-ranking intelligence officer in the Lebanese Forces, who feels guilt for his bloody acts during the civil war and the nights of Maryam Saidi, the mother who’s still searching for her son Maher, a young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982. While each of them is looking for salvation, the film asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible in a community that seems unable to heal itself. “ليال بلا نوم” هي الجامع...

MCC has moved from Nabaa to Gemmayzeh. Join us to celebrate and learn more about MCC! There will be great music, food, and friends! THIS SUNDAY, November 3, From 3pm to 5:30pm See you there! (free entrance) ** MCC is a community center where migrant workers meet to organize, discuss issues and hold meetings to prepare events. People who gather at the MCC are free to communicate and to work on cases that involve abuses that have been inflicted on domestic workers, such as, physical abuse and non-payment of wages, racism and discrimination and more. MCC focuses on support for migrant workers...

تدعوكم منظمة "عدل بلا حدود" بالتعاون مع "أي ليف آرت" إلى المشاركة في نشاط ميداني تفاعلي في منطقة النبعة تحت عنوان "معاً من أجل وصول النساء للعدالة" وذلك في إطار حملة المناصرة لمشروع "تمكين المرأة من الوصول الى العدالة" الذي تنفذه "عدل بلا حدود" بالشراكة مع أوكسفام بريطانيا وبتمويل من سيدا – السويد. ويهدف هذا المشروع إلى محو الأمية القانونية لدى النساء حول حقوقهن من قوانين الأحوال الشخصية وتقديم الإستشارات والخدمات القانونية المجانية للنساء ضحايا العنف واللواتي هنّ على خلاف مع القانون. وكذلك بناء علاقة شراكة مع قادة المجتمع المحلي ورجال الدين، والأحزاب السياسية والجمعيات الأهلية لوضع...

After a series of national networking meetings in Lebanon and Morocco, the Modern Heritage Observatory’s second regional symposium will bring together experts from the MENA region and beyond to discuss and debate crucial issues pertaining to the preservation of modern cultural heritage in the Arab world and beyond. The symposium will include four sessions: Four regional heritage institutions: case studies Training and regional expertise for preservation and archiving Living archives, living heritage Advocacy opportunities and strategies for modern heritage preservation At the end of each...

For those who missed the first screening of our film “Not Who We Are”: Please join us on the next occasion, October 30, 6pm at AUB: The Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) - Syria Relief Project at AUB, Heinrich Boell Foundation & Forward Film Production cordially invite you for the film screening NOT WHO WE ARE - نحنا مو هيك This feature-length documentary by Carol Mansour in cooperation with Heinrich Boell Foundation focuses on the plight of refugee women from Syria who have fled Syria to Lebanon over the past two and a half years. Through the stories of 5 admirable and...

يسر الشركاء في مشروع "تعزيز سياسات وممارسات حقوق الإنسان في سجون النساء في لبنان ،" التجمع النسائي الديمقراطي ودار الأمل وكاريتاس لبنان مركز الأجانب ودياكونيا، دعوتكم/ن للمشاركة في النشاط الخاص بالإعلاميين/ات والذي يندرج في سياق التعاون لتعزيز دورهم/ن في الحشد والضغط. المكان: مكتب دياكونيا- رأس النبع، محمد الحوت، شارع كريم غزاوي، بناية بلازا، ط 8 الزمان: الاربعاء 30 تشرين أول 2013 (مكتوب) / الخميس 31 تشرين أول 2013 (مرئي ومسموع) التوقيت: من 9:30 صباحًا حتى 4:00 بعد الظهر على الراغبين\ات بالتقديم للورشة إرسال رسالة مع السيرة الذاتية إلى البريد الإلكتروني التالي قبل 24 تشرين الأول 2013...

Launching of the booklet entitled“Some facts on Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon 2012-2013”Within the project of Insan Association “Access to Justice for migrant domestic workers and their children in Lebanon”, implemented in partnership and with the support of Open Society Foundation And in Collaboration with La Sagesse UniversityInsan Association would like to invite you to the launching of the booklet entitled “Some facts on Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon 2012-2013”On Wednesday, the 23rd of October 2013, from 11:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. at the Law Faculty of La Sagesse University, Beirut...

Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) Documentary, HD, 2h08', 2012   Director, researcher and executive producer: Eliane Raheb Producer, scriptwriter and editor : Nizar Hassan Director of photography: Meyar Al Roumi and Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel Synopsis: Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a major Christian militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982 in the battle of the Science campus-Lebanese university, the film...

The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, in partnership with ABAAD, cordially invite you to the launch of the “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center”. Place: Hotel Riviera, RaouchehOn Monday, October 7, 2013 at 11 a.m The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) aims at aggregating resources and research produced in the MENA region on gender and sexuality, especially in Arabic language, and make them available to all through an online database. RSVP: 01-566469 or nour@afemena.org

Film screening organized by Heinrich Boell Foundation, Lebanon. Not Who We Are is a film that tells the story of five women from Syria who share their experience of shattered lives, their loss and longing for simple daily pleasures. It is a story of continuing to hope when you are displaced and your dreams are ruptured. It is a film about building lives when you cannot build a home. The film will be screened in Beirut at Metropolis Empire Sofil Cinema on October 07 at 8:00 p.m A panel discussion and Q&A will take place after the screening. Our panelists are Ms. Siham Abu Sitta who is one of...

Protecting Lebanese Women (PLW)  دعوة إلى اعتصام سلمي أمام المجلس الإسلامي الشيعي الأعلى من أجل رفع سن الحضانة عند الطائفة الشيعية في لبنان  الساعة 12 ظهر السبت 5 الجاري facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/384317785031243/