Events

The Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at AUB presents the musical fundraising concert “One Beat, One Chance” by Michel Rebeiz and his students, April Band and Michel Nassar. Date: November 30, 2013 Time: 7.30 pm Location: Bathish Auditorium, West Hall Ticket price: $10 (on sale at CCECS office) [proceeds will go to support Educational Projects for displaced Syrians] For more info, contact us on 4430 or email us on ccecs@aub.edu.lb. You are also welcome to visit our center in West Hall, Office B03. [facebook event]

L'Institut français du Liban et l'Institut français du Proche Orient ont le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de l'exposition Sabracosmopolitede Houda Kassatly le mardi 26 novembre à 17h30 (Allée principale de l'Institut) Le vernissage sera suivi d'une conférence à 18h15:Travailleurs migrants au Liban, situations et modes de vie(Salle de conférence)Intervenantes: Elisabeth Longuenesse & Liliane Kfoury Cette exposition s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche de l'IFPO (Travailleurs étrangers au Liban, Situations, Réglementations, Sociabilités), en coopération avec l'USJ et la...

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)  

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...

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...

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...