The Lebanese Economic Association invites you to the closing event of its project:
“Know, React, Engage"
A Public Discussion on Socio-Economic Rights in Lebanon”
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 between 5:30 and 8:00 pm Metro Al Madina- Hamra
Agenda:
5:30- 5:40 Welcoming Address
5:40- 6:00 Screening of Project Videos (project trailer)
6:00- 8:00 Discussion on Socio-Economic Rights in Lebanon
Speakers:
Youth Unemployment and Cost of Living:
- Dr. Sami Atallah, Executive Director, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Education and Working Women:
- Ms. Sawsan Masri, Project Coordinator, International...
Dance, Music & Fun Night at Mar Mikhael Stairs... when we will meet there after 9:00 pm to talk about our next steps, to continue our campaign, to continue our fight vs Fouad Boutros Project; this time we will be with all Lebanese night lovers and we will create a great Nostalgia atmosphere to show our support to this street and the stairs.
Please invite all your friends...All NGOs are invited to be there with their members specially all friends of The Civil Coalition against the Highway Project “ Hekmeh-Turk” Axis (“Fouad Boutros” Road).
Let's make it Crazy HERITAGE night!Join us on Saturday...
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
invites you to: Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
The International Human Rights Clinical Program at the Boston University School of Law is completing a two-year research project focusing on the legal issues and problems that are creating barriers to relief and protection for refugees fleeing Syria. This project focuses on the international and regional legal instruments that govern the rights of and obligations towards this refugee flow in the most-affected states: Lebanon, Jordan...
Zahwa. 20 years old. She was 20 years old. She fell in love. Without asking for permission. They killed her, in her bed, one Tuesday night, at 7:30 pm. An honour crime!
Let's celebrate “Zahwa’s Wedding” together, the wedding she never had.
A theatre performance; a dialogue between Jean-Marc Nahas, Marwa Khalil, Wafaa Halawi and Daline Jabbour. Zahwa, the woman becomes Zahwa the earth and Zahwa the mother. Three segments that speak of women, love, life, death and resurrection.
Tickets on sale at Librairie Antoine.
Tickets prices: 40.000LL & 30.000 LL
Direction: Lara Kanso
Paintings /...
Heinrich Böll Stiftung cordially invites you to screening of the film "Dear Lebanon," A Teenage Perspective of Bombings, Religion and Politics by Raphael Schanz and the teenager’s team: Gassia Shadarevian, Ghida Ladkani, Majd Gharzeddine, Marwan Sakr, Mohamad Bsat, Navia Ghawi, Naye Idriss and Omar EI-Salhan. Date & Time: Thursday, March 13th at 7:30 PM - Place: Altcity, Hamra Street, Carre Bldg, between Fransabank and Kababji.
About the Film
Weekly bomb attacks, an instable political system, a society ruptured and divided along confessional lines, and an ever-increasing level of social...
The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
cordially invites you to a lecture by Malek Sharif
The State and the CityUncovering the early history of the municipality of Beirut
AUB, Bldg. 37 (behind the Lee Observatory), Thursday March 13, 2014 (5:00pm)
The standard literature on the Ottoman Tanzimat period largely ignores or barely touches on the provincial urban institutions. They ignore the formative years of the municipalities in the provinces and the laws by which they were constituted. Consequently they date the foundation of municipalities at a later period of time. They also tend to...
Three active campaigns organizing around sexuality in India have gained international attention. First, the long-term campaigns against honor killing in rural North India have finally reached the Indian national stage. Second, the spontaneous and to many surprising upsurge of young women's and men's protest against the Delhi gang rape of a woman on December 16, 2012 continues to galvanize protests and legal changes. Third, the immediate reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate section 377 of the Indian penal code, a British-era law that makes gay sex illegal, that was overturned...
Street Performance of "Nes bsamneh w nes bzeit" Sat. March 8, 2014 - 2:00 p.m. in front of the National Museum, Beirut عرض " ناس بسمنة وناس بزيت" يوم السبت 8 آذار 2014 الساعة 2 بعض الظهر أمام المتحف الوطني - بيروت
Zoukak’s “Nes bsamneh w nes bzeit” street performance will launch the march against gender-based violence organized by KAFA on Saturday, March 8, 2014 from the National Museum to the Palace of Justice in Beirut إذا بدّها شارع للتشريع... نازلين!
“Nes bsamneh w nes bzeit” (“some people are coated in ghee and others in oil”, a Lebanese saying that denounces social discrimination) by...
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, and the Center for American Studies and Research
Cordially invite you to a lecture and book launch
'Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics'
byDr. Elisabeth Armstrong Thursday, March 6th, 2014 | 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Building 37 CASAR (Behind the Old Observatory) - AUB
In 1991, structural adjustments began in earnest in India. The nation’s leaders reduced social spending and dismantled protections and supports for...
