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Gender Politics in Tunisia and Libya (Arabic)

Publicado el 09 de marzo 2021

To mark the occasion os Women’s Month, we will be holding this round table discussion on Tuesday, March 9, with the participation of Begoña Lasagabaster, the representative of UN-Women for Tunisia and Libya; Yosra Fraoues, the president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, and Libyan activist Wafia Saifalnasr, who has been very involved in her country’s political life in recent times. As in the rest of the world, gender equality in the Arab world is far from being achieved both for legal reasons and because of the important role played by customs and traditions which relegate women in many respects compared with men. However, the situation is not exactly the same in all Arab countries. Whilst in some countries little or very little progress has been made on the path towards achieving equality, in others quite a bit of encouraging progress has been made. In order to discuss this important issue, as part of Women’s Month, Casa Árabe is organizing a round table discussion specifically to analyze the situation in Tunisia, one of the most advanced countries in terms of gender equality, and in Libya, a country mired in a lengthy armed conflict which has had an especially strong impact on the situation of women. Participating in the round table will be Begoña Lasagabaster, the representative of UN-Women for Tunisia and Libya; Yosra Fraoues, the president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, and Libyan activist Wafia Saifalnasr, who has been very involved in her country’s political life in recent times. Yosra Fraoues is a lawyer and human rights activist. She is the president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and delegate of the International Federation for Human Rights in Tunisia. She has taken part as a legal expert in the drafting of texts on the democratic transition, as well as in the drafting of the Law against violence against women approved in 2017. She is also a trainer specialized in the field of human rights in general, and of women's rights in particular. She is the author and co-author of books on the subject equality. Begoña Lassgabaster is Country Representative UN Women Libya and Tunisia. With over 20 years of professional experience, she was a member of the Spanish parliament for 12 years, followed by a stint at the European Parliament. Lasagabaster has helped establish more than 150 laws in areas of women's rights, gender equality law, elimination of violence against women, international development and cooperation, justice, and economic and social rights. Wafia A. Saifalnasr is a Libyan political activist. She was a founding member of the Libyan platform Women for peace. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a Master in Software Engineering. She was an advisor to former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan. Photo: Tunisia_Cospe More info: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/gender-politics-in-tunisia-and-libya

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“Yogurt with Marmalade: Or how my mother became Lebanese” (ARABIC)

2018.26.11. Lebanon’s Lena Mehrej presented her graphic novel, published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, at the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid. She held a dialogue with graphic novelist Quan Zhou, author of Sweet-and-sour Gazpacho. "In Lebanon, yogurt has been eaten with salt and grated cucumber (very finely grated) since the beginning of time. One day, Lena Merhej (Beirut, 1977) was stunned when she saw her mother eat yogurt with marmalade. Years later, she sketched this lovely story about her mother, a German woman from Hannover, and created a portrait of the peaceful co-existence of contradictions” that existed in her family and, perhaps to a lesser extent, her country. A closer look at the Arab world through the eyes of a women from old Europe, proving that the East is not so far and also has a memory, nostalgia and open wounds." Alfonso Zapico, Babelia - El País, April 21, 2018 Lena Merhej (Beirut, 1977), born to a German mother and Lebanese father, completed her studies in Art and Graphic Design. She has given classes in illustration and animation at the Lebanese American University. With more than twenty illustrated albums for children, she formed part of the founding team of Samandal, the first magazine of comics in the Arab world. Her animated film Dessiner la guerre (Drawing War) won the jury’s award at the New York Festival in 2003, and her graphic novels Kamen sine (Another Year) and Yogurt with Marmalade received the award for best comic book at the International Comics Festival of Algiers in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2016, she coordinated the monographic issue of Samandal on youth, sexuality and poetry. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/“yogurt-with-marmalade-or-how-my-mother-became-lebanese”

Publicado el 31 de marzo 2020
(4) Gender and youth: lessons and action

International Forum "A decade of tranformations in the Arab world". 04/24/2017: Arab citizens and their development. "Gender and youth: lessons and action". Hibaaq Osman, El-Karama and Mayssoun Sukarieh, King’s College. Moderated by: Maram Anbar, Club de Madrid. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/a-decade-of-transformations-in-the-arab-world

Publicado el 31 de marzo 2020
(4) Género y juventud: lecciones y acciones.

Foro Internacional "Una década de transformaciones en los países árabes". 24/04/2017 Dentro del bloque dedicado a "El ciudadano árabe y su desarrollo", tuvo lugar la conferencia "Género y juventud: lecciones y acciones", por Hibaaq Osman, El-Karama y Mayssoun Sukarieh, King’s College. Moderó: Maram Anbar, Club de Madrid. Más información: http://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/una-decada-de-transformaciones-en-el-mundo-arabe

Publicado el 31 de marzo 2020
(5) Arab women after a decade of transformations

Casa Árabe organized this public conference as part of the International Forum on “A decade of transformations in the Arab world.” With Madawi al-Rasheed, Fatemah Farag and Hibaaq Osman. Over the last decade, we have witnessed a series of transformations in the Arab world, taking place in societies which asked for democracy while clamoring for freedom and dignity. However, Arab women continue to fall victim to discrimination, violence and the violation of their rights. There is evidence of this in the annual reports by the most important world organizations published since the 1980’s, with indicators ranking the Arab countries at the bottom in terms of gender development, measures for the empowerment and gender equality, furthering women’s role in science, women’s activity in the economy and labor market, and women’s participation in political life, as well as other indicators. This conference, which formed part of the international forum “A decade of transformation in the Arab world,” included the participation of three experts who discussed the many challenges ahead to be faced by Arab women, from different perspectives: Madawi al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) Middle East Centre; Fatemah Farag, a journalist and the founder and director of Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, and Hibaaq Osman, the founder of al-Karama and a member of several organizations which specialize in gender-based and feminist studies. More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/arab-women-after-a-decade-of-transformations

Publicado el 31 de marzo 2020
(5) Las mujeres árabes tras una década de transformaciones

24/04/2017: Conferencia pública a cargo de Madawi al-Rasheed, Fatemah Farag e Hibaaq Osman, en el marco del Foro Internacional "Una década de transformaciones en el mundo árabe". En la última década hemos asistido a una serie de transformaciones en el mundo árabe protagonizadas por sociedades que pedían democracia y reclamaban libertad y dignidad. Sin embargo, la mujer árabe es víctima aún de discriminación, violencia y confiscación de derechos. Prueba de ello son los informes anuales de los principales organismos mundiales que se han publicado desde la década de 1980, cuyos indicadores colocan a los países árabes en los últimos puestos en materia de desarrollo de género, medidas de empoderamiento e igualdad de género, desarrollo científico de las mujeres y actividad económica-laboral femenina o participación de la mujer en la vida política, entre otros. Esta conferencia, que se enmarca dentro del foro internacional "Una década de transformaciones en el mundo árabe", cuenta con tres expertas que abordaron desde distintas perspectivas, los numerosos desafíos que tienen ante sí las mujeres árabes: Madawi al-Rasheed, profesora visitante en el Centro de Oriente Medio de la London School of Economics (LSE); Fatemah Farag, periodista, fundadora y directora de Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD; e Hibaaq Osman, fundadora de al-Karama y miembro de varias organizaciones especializadas en estudios de género y feministas. Moderó el encuentro Pilar Requena, reportera del programa "En Portada" de TVE y profesora de Relaciones Internacionales. Más información: http://www.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/las-mujeres-arabes-tras-una-decada-de-transformaciones

Publicado el 31 de marzo 2020