Events

Zoukak would like to invite to ‘‘Silk Thread”; a site-specific performance investigating social structures that define and shape gender stereotypes as identified through local mythologies, fairy tales, modern legends, contemporary stories and actual events. Borrowing elements from story-telling, live art, installation and movement, the performance will inhabit a site, and the audience will be invited to travel within it, listening to the stories and witnessing events very closely. A fine line between reality and fiction is drawn, allowing the fantasy of the tales and the violence of actuality...

L'Association Libanaise pour la Promotion Humaine et l'Alphabetisation, en collaboration avec l'ecole de Soultanieh et l'amnbassade de France au Liban, a le plaisir de vous inviter a la 6eme KERMESSE DU PRINTEMPS qui se tiendra le dimanche 29 Avril 2012 a l'ecole de Soultanieh  | 10h The Lebanese Association for Human Promotion and Literacy, in partnership with the school of the Liberation of Soultanieh and the French Embassy in Lebanon, is happy to invite you to the 6th SPRING KERMESSE which will take place sunday April 29th 2012 in the School of the Liberation of Soultanieh (South Lebanon)...

ANTI-RACISM Mouvement  Celebrate Workers' Day! End Slavery! End Sponsorship for Migrant Domestic Workers  ***  Join us for a cultural parade and festival to celebrate Workers’ Day and demand change of the sponsorship system  Time and Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012 starting 11:30 am  Location: from Makhlouf Restaurant in Dora to St. Joseph Church in Monot Street Organized by ARM/ Nasawiya, Insan, PCAAM, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation and several migrant community leaders With the support of DRC and SDC Program: 1130 am-1pm Parade from Makhlouf Restaurant in Dora to St. Joseph Church in...

Study Trip to Jordan- land of Biblical and Qur’anic Prophets Saturday 28 April 2012 to Tuesday 1 May 2012  As part of its Study Trips program, that joins leisure with non-formal education and aims at fostering personal enrichment and mutual understanding, Adyan foundation is organizing a 4 day, 3 nights trip to Jordan, on the theme of Jordan, land of Biblical and Qur’anic prophets.  The travellers will be accompanied by 2 lecturers Fr. Dr. Joseph Bou Raad (Dean of the Faculty of Theological sciences and Pastoral studies at Antonine University), and Dr. Nayla Tabbara (Director of Cross-Cultural...

International SeminarApril – September 2012 CRA'P seminars 2012 ARTWORKS & LANDMARKSContemporary Arts Practice & ContextsThe Seminar artworks & landmarks intends to approach the cross-disciplinary / inter-media practices of contemporary artworks, with the intention to breakdown boundaries and to emphasize and interrogate its cultural rather than its disciplinary contexts. Artworks & Landmarks are the two main subjects that inform and frame the activities, discourse and development of the Seminar. The overall objective of this seminar is to question and expand the notion of contemporary art...

SCHEHERAZADE IN BAABDA A PLAY PERFORMED BY THE WOMEN INMATES OF BAABDA PRISON DIRECTED BY ZEINA DACCACHE PLACE: BAABDA PRISON DATE: April 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28, 2012   May 3, 4, 5, 10 & 11, 2012 At 3PM   Due To The Particularity Of The Location, Access To The Show Is Restricted To Authorized and Confirmed Reservations. Places Are Limited.   For Reservation, Please Call (03) 162 573, at least 10 days before the date of the show you wish to attend.   For More Info, Please Contact Catharsis on:  (03) 162 573 / (09) 914 932 / E.MAIL: info@catharsislcdt.org     With the support of Drosos...

What happens if you loose your phone? What happens if you loose someone you love? if you've lost your phone, you can buy another, If you've lost your son or daughter can you buy another one??? So we find a solution for all those lost people Join us this Friday April 13th, 2012 from 10.30 am till 11.30 am At Nejmeh Square, Facing the Lebanese Parliament TO DEMAND FOR A LAW FOR THE DISSAPEARED FORCEFULLY MISSING IN THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR To read the proposed law please visit: http://daleel-madani.org/resource/law-kidnapped

On the occaison of the release of Judge John Qazzi's book "A Trip of a Lifetime to Nationality", and the reopening of the debate on women's right to grant Nationality to their Children. The Legal Agenda Women's Nationality Right Campaign KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation Organization Cordially invite you to the conference under the title: "The Judge and Women's Right to Nationality". Speakers include Judge John Qazzi, Mrs. Saadah Allaw (Assafir Journalist), Mrs. Lina Abu Habib (Women's Nationality Right Campaign) and Mrs. Zoya Rouhana (Kafa 'Enough' Violence & Exploitation). The debate...

Launch of the “Civic Hub” project for civil society Networking at Zico House We cordially invite you to the launching ceremony of the “Civic Hub” project on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. at Zico House*, Sanayeh. The ceremony will include a briefing about the project and an introduction to the public and the media about the project components, objectives and methods of work, followed by an exhibition of posters for NGOs and campaigns performed in Lebanon from 1990 to 2012. RSVP : 9611-741412 Email : civichub@zicohouse.org   About the Civic Hub The Civic Hub is a civil initiative that...

International Colloquium Organized by the Faculty of Business and Commercial Sciences at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Jointly with the Arab Society of Faculties of Business, Economic and Political Sciences   Date: April 2 and 3, 2012 [Official opening session on April 2, 2012 at 10:00 am] Place: John-Paul II Amphitheater - USEK Main Campus * Early Bird untill February 3, 2012 For registration please visit www.usekic2012.com

Spring Festivals are successful celebrations of international modern creativity organized by SHAMS Association and Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) once every two years to present a wide range of the most prominent contemporary creations in music, theatre, dance, visual arts and literature.  Cengiz Ozek |Turkey| Shadow Puppet Theater &workshops (theater)20 & 21 April 2012 - 18:00 - Sunflower Theater 22 April 2012 - 18:00 - Beit El Fan (Tripoli) Classical Turkish Ensemble |Turkey| Turkish Coffee (Music)22 April 2012 - 20.30 - Sunflower Theater  The Tausi Women’s Taarab |Zanzibar| (Music...

The Legal Agenda A non-profit research organization, registered under the number 2360 on 22-12-2009 Cordially invites you to a seminar entitled “Out of Order Judicial Committees: Denying Access to Justice to Vulnerable Social Groups” Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 18:00 “Université pour Tous” building, 107 Saint Joseph University street (Entrance through the Saint Joseph Church parking) In the context of monitoring judicial work, the Legal Agenda will examine the blockage of several Judicial Committees, some of which have been inoperative since their creation. This is the case of the “Committee...

American University of Beirut, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs And Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies Cordially invites you to a lecture and open discussion with Francois Burgat, Director of the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) Political Islam through Arab revolutions Tuesday, March 27. 5:00–6:30 pm Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, AUB   Dr. Francois Burgat is a political scientist and senior researcher at Centre National du Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Currently based in Beyrouth, Burgat is the Director of the French Institute...

In the framework of activities held by the group "Reddo el Masrah la Beirut" (Translated: Reclaim the Theater for Beirut) to protect Beirut Theater from the risk of demolition and closure, we invite you to attend a theatrical event and protest against the closure of the theater and against the diminishing cultural and public space in Lebanon, participating in the event is a big number of artists and concerned activists.  Following the event is a march towards Beirut Theater in Ain El Mreisseh. All theaters are Beirut Theater. Thank you FDZ and Ramzi Madi for the Video, and Youmna Habboush and...

Why and how people and organizations give varies. Individuals mainly give because they are presented with a giving opportunity that motivates them. In turn, foundations give based on their specific defined philanthropic focus and goals, whereas a small part of donations from charitable contributions comes from corporations which seek to invest in community well-being.NGOs should then look at who the givers are and note who they give to — then connect the dots knowing that philanthropy is not necessarily compassion in action. It will often, if not mostly, be an investment in entities that...

UNCOVERED is a three-year research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in NicosiaThe publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and includes texts by many international artists and the Lebanese Jalal Toufic and Lamia Joreigevlina...

A woman (/ˈwʊmən/), pl: women (/ˈwɪmɨn/) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female childor adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Unlike men, women are typically capable of giving birth. This is the meaning of "Woman" on Wikepedia. *** On Thursday, the 22nd of march, at 8.30 pm, we will show Wikipedia what is a "Woman" and how is it to live in a country such as Lebanon! So.... WOMAN, A live performance by...

International Symposium:  The Arab Uprisings:Sociological Perspectives and Geographical Comparisons -- 20th and 21th of March 2012   Venue: Auditorium A, West Hall, American University of Beirut   Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies (SOAM) - American University of Beirut (AUB) Lebanese Sociological Association (LSA) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (Lebanon) International Sociological Association (ISA) Qatar University     Organizing Committee: Sari Hanafi (SAOM-AUB), Chebib Diab (LSA), Michael Burawoy (ISA), Samir Farah (FES).   Open to Public Languages: Arabic and English...