A candlelight vigil will be held for four victims of femicide (3 women and 1 child) who lost their lives this week to senseless violence. Organized by independent feminist activists, the vigil will take place on Saturday, December 23rd at 5 p.m. before Beirut’s National Museum. The group invites everyone all
Just a few days after Lebanon marked International Women’s Day with the lighting up of Beirut’s Grand Serail in pink, a woman in Tripoli succumbed to her wounds a month after her husband had hit her on the head with a rock. According to media reports, the attack took place
Excuse me for being less than enthusiastic about that one day during the year when politicians decide to “celebrate” women. Excuse me for not being impressed. I am tired, and bitter, and fearful of the day when I might be raising children in Lebanon. Will my daughter be able to
The internet is furious – this after a Moroccan state television channel aired a segment recently showing women how to cover bruises caused by domestic violence using make-up. In the segment broadcast on Morocco’s Channel 2M’s “Sabahiyat” on November 23rd, just two days ahead of the International Day for the Elimination
A Lebanese woman, identified as Lina Kh., was reportedly held against her will by her ex-husband and several armed men in her matrimonial home in the town of al-Ghinneh on Thursday night after she had arrived in the company of two police officers, an attorney and a priest assigned by
Lebanese women are often portrayed in the media as being among the most liberal in the Middle East, and while that may be true to a certain degree, it does not mean that the law often works in their favor –liberal or not. Tuesday stood testament to that, as activists and
A social experiment was performed in a crowded supermarket, recorded by the hidden cameras of the MBC network, where a Lebanese woman mistreats her domestic worker of unspecified south-east Asian descent, before the eyes of shoppers and passersby. Evidently, the experiment is meant to engage public opinion on the
Far from any semblance of conflict, children and innocent bystanders are falling victim to the arbitrary use of guns in both celebrations and funeral processions. As this blog post is being written, 11 year-old Hassan Hussein Kheireddine lies on a hospital bed after receiving a bullet to the chest, which
The case of Roula Yaacoub, a woman whose husband was said to have beaten her to death four years ago, has finally moved forward with the accusatory body of North Lebanon overturning a decision issued in 2014, which prevented the trial of her husband for “lack of evidence,” Lebanon’s Legal
