Paola Salwan Daher When I first listened to Morgane Merteuil, general secretary of the Syndicat du Travail Sexuel (STRASS) (French Union of Sex Work) commenting on the new project of law currently being examined in France to criminalize sex workers’ clients, I had to admit I was intrigued. There she was, strongly condemning the prospective [...]
While the five-stars are fully booked and the festivals are making bank and all of Hamra seems intent on a path of self-mutilation whereby each newly redundant bar tries its best to further lower the age demographic, we sit here, silent, sated by the sun, stunned by the reality that no one – not even us – really cares.
نارمين الحر اليوم اعلن المدير العام لمجلس الوزراء اللبناني سهيل بوجي تشكيل حكومة جديدة برئاسة نجيب ميقاتي. وبما أنه “الدنيا أحلى برجالها”، ارتأى ميقاتي أن تُشكّل حكومة لبنان بنسائه ورجاله، من دون أي تمثيل نسائي. ماذا يعني غياب الوجه النسائي عن حكومة ميقاتي “صاحب المشروع الانقاذي”؟ يعني أن في وقت الأزمات، حدّد “رجل الوفاق والاعتدال” [...]
Sarah Hijazi People find it strange for a woman to want to live by herself. Unless she’s getting married or going to a university that is really far from home, people don’t see any reason why she should move out from her parents’ house. It doesn’t really matter whether she has the means to have [...]
Lioba Hirsch So… last week, I was with my friend from Bangladesh, having returned from a walk together back into the shelter’s living room. A woman I had never seen before, who was staying there, looked at us and smiled. I extended my hand and said, “Hi, how are you, I’m Lioba.” “Oh, that’s perfect”, [...]
Sara AbuGhazal There is a very old wound in me/ between my legs/Where I’ve bled, not to birth pueblos or revolutionary Concepts or simple sucking children/But a memory/Of some ancient /betrayal. Cherrie Moraga, “loving in the war years”, 1983 “We did not agree for a male doctor to perform the test,” she said. But Hosseini [...]
Sarah Hijazi You want to know why we need to change our system in Lebanon? You doubt how corrupt our government is? Try registering for your driver’s license. If you want to do it in Beirut, you need to go to this old building way outside of town. You will have trouble getting there [...]
Dima Karam Well even animals do it, they groom each other. For hours, tidying their fur. Male species engage in theatrical dances to show off their grooming and impress females in mating season. Cats lick themselves all day long. And humans… well, we have plastic surgery, nail bars and hairdressers. So why is it that [...]
Rebecca Saade Well, with everything happening in my personal and in the region around me, I feel kind of silly being so angered by the polemic surrounding Nemr Abou Nassar’s sense of humour. But here it goes. Background: This post was inspired by two articles Searching for Nemer AbouNassar’s Sense of Humor written [...]
