You are cordially invited to attend TransFocus: A Trans* Film Festival on
Friday Nov 29th: AUB-Issam Fares Hall Saturday Nov 30th: AltCity-Hamra:
Sunday Dec 1st: Minus1 – Ashrafiyeh:
TransFocus is an independent film festival that addresses trans* and gender-variant topics, questions, persons, and politics in Lebanon. Through screening a few relevant international movies and grounding them in our local Lebanese context as much as possible, we're attempting to raise discussions, explore alliances, and create space for empowerment as well as for awareness.
Please find a detailed...
IFI lecture: "Domestic Violence in Lebanon"
Moderator: Dina Kiwan Panelists: Charbel Nahas - Jaqueline Hajjar - Rihab - Lydia Farah
Women around the world suffer from domestic violence, including marital rape and assault, and given the highly sensitive nature of this issue, its scale is difficult to ascertain. In December 1999 the United Nations designated November 25th as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in order to raise awareness of the problem, which is why the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs is holding a panel...
