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WOMEN, ACTIVISM & BLOGS

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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One month ago I have been invited to a meeting called “Donne tra memoria e futuro” at the Prix Italia in Torino. I was asked to talk about women and new technologies. So News-Lab and also how technology can be a vehicle for [...]

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Tags: Human Rights · Politics · Video · women

In Mideast, marriage too can be a battlefield

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS (AP) –
NICOSIA, Cyprus — The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
But Elie Wakim and Nada Ghamloush from Lebanon, and Dimitri Stafeev and Olga Zaytseva from [...]

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Tags: Gender · Human Rights · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics · Religion · Society · War & Conflict · women

Distinction Tunisienne..

July 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Une chercheuse tunisienne, Sarra M’Barek, vient d’obtenir une distinction scientifique à l’échelle internationale. Elle a décroché le prix de la meilleure recherche scientifique, octroyé par l’Académie Royale de Pathologie Végétale (KNPV Hollande).
Voilà l’article de cette distinction
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Tags: Education · Uncategorized · women

Cabaret night in Lebanon…

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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lebanese dancer in restaurant
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lebanese dancer in restaurant
Uploaded by LeliaLeb. – Arts and animation videos.
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Tags: Arts & Culture · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Video · music · women

le corp des femmes – il corpo delle donne

May 9th, 2009 · No Comments

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 ”il corpo delle donne” c’est un documentaire trés interessant sur l’image des femmes à la tele italienne. Il n’est pas encore disponible en francais ni en anglais mais les images sont assez éloquents     www.ilcorpodelledonne.it/documentario  
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Tags: Gender · Video · women

Caught in the middle: women in Lebanon

March 15th, 2009 · No Comments

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2nd December 2004 but still true…by Ghada Khouri, from www.mediterraneas.org

From bikini-clad girls sunbathing on the beaches of Jounieh, to mothers in hijab (head cover) strolling the streets of Baalbeck, the women of Lebanon are as diverse and contradictory as [...]

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Tags: Community Development · Education · Gender · Mediterranean · women

Maids in Lebanon

January 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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I’ve been watching these short videos about women’s lives and migration across different countries. Two in particular stand out: Maid in Lebanon and Maid in Lebanon II by Carol Mansour. We worry a lot about immigrants in the UK – legal and illegal, labour migration, [...]

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Tags: Gender · Human Rights · Society · women

The geography of a woman

December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa , half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!
Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe , well developed and open to trade, especially for someone with cash.
Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain [...]

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Tags: Travel · women

Ahmed Rashid, the interview

December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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I met him at the presentation of his new book DESCENT INTO CHAOS
Here he talks about the MUMBAI ATTACK

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and about WESTERN COUNTRIES in Central Asia

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and about WOMEN in Afghanistan

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Le dialogue interculturel, un défi pour les croyances mais aussi pour les journalistes

November 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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Article paru dans L’Orient-Le Jour du 18 novembre 2008
Alors qu’à New York se tenait l’Assemblée générale de l’Onu pour le dialogue des religions, l’Union européenne organisait à Bruxelles le 11 novembre dernier une conférence sur le thème Dialogue interculturel, un défi pour les croyances [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · women