Lebanese Women - The Struggle for Equal Nationality Rights
source: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2009/03/05/elwazer.lebanon.citizenship.cnn
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The Current Reality on Lebanese Soil:
All over Lebanon, women who marry foreigner mates are denied their ultimate and universal right to pass along their nationality. This basically extends to not only the husband (foreigner), but also to their children. Such a reality, however, is not faced by men who marry foreign women (thus easily passing their nationality to the man's whole family).
This rendered inequality of citizenship is discriminatory and it denies women a basic human right. It also has serious implications for children...Article also published on the activist Group on Facebook: (http://linkbee.com/LebWomanEquality) quoting: "Men of quality, RESPECT women's equality".
The various goals of the campaign include:
- Primary Objective: Advocating equal access of women to full nationality and citizenship rights
- The actual realization and display of equality WITHOUT reservation (thus by Law)
- Concentrate the public attention towards this subject matter, and accordingly acting upon it as soon as possible.
Thanks go out to: Schams Elwazer, Greta Sassine Nawas, Bilal Younes, Mohammad Ahmad, Zinab Chahine, and many others for all their continuous efforts, devotion to the subject matter and insistence to make the voice of all Lebanese mothers heard (and especially for the government to act)!
Publisher: Elias N.
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• Only In London is published by Bloomsbury at £16.99. Hanan al-Shaykh will be at the Edinburgh book festival on Tuesday August 14 at 12.30pm. Tickets: 0131 624 5050.
======================================The 1991 Gulf war to repel Iraq's invasion of Kuwait fuelled intense interest in Britain and the US in the English translation of Women Of Sand And Myrrh, which was published not long before. Cooke, however, has reservations about that novel for "exoticising" its subject, "targeting it to a western audience that likes to think of women doing weird things in harems and deserts - the Rudolph Valentino image of Arabia".
Beirut Blues (1992) was an act of remembrance for a city in transformation, "as if Beirut is only in my memory". She wrote of the city's descent into a "demons' playground" as sectarianism was fed by outside powers, including Syria, Iran, and Israel, and "feudal political families fell and drug dealers became rich". She sought to "cap ture the day-to-day atmosphere of life during the war - problems with water, electricity, garbage - and how people survive. The Lebanese don't want to think of the days when they were so frightened, when the city was under a spell, a plague."
The novel consists of letters from a woman, Asmahan, to friends, lovers, the city and the land. She also writes to Jill Morrell, who campaigned for the release of kidnapped journalist John McCarthy. ("I wanted to show that a Lebanese was feeling with them," says al-Shaykh.) Asmahan likens all civilians in Beirut to hostages of war. She also writes to a Palestinian lover who has left. Al-Shaykh, who collected money for children in the Palestinian refugee camps when she was 12, and had schoolfriends from the camps - including the future hijacker Leila Khaled - remembers crying at the Arab defeat in the six-day war of 1967. Sh
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Femme caramel
guardian.co.uk, Friday October 5 2007
Lebanese women have a reputation for being the most glamorous and liberated in the Arab world. So the choice of a Beirut beauty salon as the central setting for Caramel, a Lebanese light comedy about the trials and tribulations of womanhood, seems altogether quite appropriate. The film revolves around the love lives of the salon's three beauticians - Layal, Nisrine and - 3 years ago
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