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Lebanon
CLOWN AROUND Clown Walk For Laughter VII Friends ..WE live in this city and we all we need a some sort of public place where one can sit, read, dance, sing, play music, eat, and meet people. This time Clown Walk for laughter will stop in the middle of Hamra to make a musical Picnic. "FREE PUBLIC SPACE " , because We Want To " PLAY & LAUGH " Meeting Point : Sanayeh Park "Bring Your Picnic Equipment " :o) MORE CLOWN MORE LAUGHTER :0) Wahid Al- 3ajala : 78915437 Al-shorba Al-Se7reh : 70765706 مهرجون يمشون للمساحات العامة الساعة: 5 بعد الظهر يا مهرجون العالم اتحدوا لأنه ليس هناك مكان...
Lebanon
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...
Lebanon
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...
Lebanon
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...
Lebanon
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...
Lebanon
ماتت كريستال أبو شقرا، وقبلها منال العاصي، وقبلهما فاطمة بكّور، ورولا يعقوب، ومالكة، وآديل، وبغداد، وبثينة، ومنى، وصونيا، ونيليان، وآمنة، ولطيفة... واللائحة تطول بأسماء كان لها وجوه وحيوات ورغبات وأحلام ومخاوف أمست غباراً لحظة قرّر هو ذلك. لحظة قرّر أن يقتلها ولم يردعه أحد. هو اليوم مستعدّ لقتلنا مرّة أخرى، واحدة تلو الأخرى، بعد أن يهدّدنا، ويسمّمنا، ويشدّنا من شعرنا، ويسحلنا أرضاً، ويمزّق ثيابنا، ويُرهق أجسادنا، ويُزهق أرواحنا، داخل بيوت ألِفَت التهديدات الأمنية الخطيرة حتّى قبل أن يتعرّف الشارع عليها. كلّ ذلك ولا مجلس التأم لأجلنا، حتّى بعدما مدّد لنفسه بحجّة تحصين الأمن في البلاد، فيما...
Lebanon
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...
Lebanon
The controversial Fouad Boutros Highway project was given the green light and will kick off in few weeks time. This catastrophic project will destroy 32 heritage landmarks, endanger 33 more, and uproot thousands of meters of lush green spaces in the Ashrafieh, Hekmeh and Mar Mikhael neighborhoods. We invite all Lebanese people specially Green lovers, Beirut residents, Mar Michael & Gemmazyze fans as well as all NGOs and friends to join the protest against Achrafieh demolition in 2 consecutive days: - Saturday 1st of March starting 3:00 pm at Mar Mikhayel street near Port View Hotel facing EDL...