Activities Archive

2024

• Panel Discussion: “Women in Diplomacy”
• Signing Ceremony: Intisar Foundation’s Gift to AiW
• Honoring event: Saloua Raouda Choucair
• Honoring Ceremony: “Dr. Samira Aghacy”
• International Women’s Day: “Accelerating Gender Equality Through Economic Empowerment of all Women and Girls”

2023

• Panel Discussion: “Frontiers of Gender Equality in the Arab Region”
• Launch Ceremony: “Women in Leadership” Project
• International Conference: “Anti-Feminist Backlash in the Global South: Cross-Regional Discussions, Strategies, and Innovative Practices”
• Book Launching: “Gendering Civil War: Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon”
• Book Launching: “Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East”.
• Paper Launching: “Media Hostility: Case Studies on Backlash in the Lebanese Media”
• Paper Launching: “Lebanon: Understanding Anti-Feminist Backlash”
• Play: “Let us Play House (Beit Byout)”
• Athena40-5th Global Conversation: “Innovation, Change, & Education for Women in the Digital Age”
• International Women’s Day: “Gender Equality and Technology: Women’s Inclusion in the Digital World”
• Regional Workshop: “Women’s Political Participation in the Arab Region”
• Panel on: “Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region”
• Film Screening: “Octopus”
• Panel Discussion: Sextarianism
• Seminar: “Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice”

2022

• Screening of Documentary: “Aida Returns”
• Panel Discussion: Women’s Leadership in Challenging Environments
• Panel Discussion: “Women and Culture in Lebanon”
• Lecture: Gender & LGBTQ+ Politics in Iceland
• Workshop: Strengthening Arab Regional Capacity to Collect Data on VAW
• Closing Event: “Supporting Political Participation of Targeted Women in Lebanon”
• Webinar: Personal Status Laws: Amending the Codes
• International Conference: Women, Religion, & Human Rights
• International Conference: Women & Gender Studies in the Middle East
• Athena40-4th Global Conversation: Women as Catalysts for Resilience, Diversity, and Change
• Strengthening Intergenerational Dialogue and Partnership on Gender Equality & Climate Change
• Closing Event: “Equality for Everyone: Gender Reform from Grassroots to Government”
• Screening of Documentaries: “Reconstructing the Stories of Unsung Heroines”
• Choice Workshop

2021

• Launching Event: Comparative Study
• مشروع المساواة للجميع: إصلاحات جندرية من القاعدة الشعبية إلى الحكومة
• Roundtable Discussion with the Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB)
• TLS End of Year Conference: “A Tailored Path to Success”
• Webinar: Gender and COVID-19
• Webinar: Parental Leave in Focus
• Female Leadership in Times of Crises
• Annual Regional Training: Laure Moghaizel

2020

• Writing Beirut: a Collaboration between Kohl and Al-Raida
• Lebanese Women Over a Period of 100 Years
• Making the Case on Female Leadership
• Our Work
• Driving Forward Women’s Leadership in Lebanon and the Arab Region

2019

• AiW at ICPD25!
• My City, My Space
• Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow
• AiW at TEDxLAU Social Space!
• Advancing the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in the Arab Region
• Child Marriage in Emergency Context
• Festival Next: A Busy and Boisterous LAU Production
• Women on the RISE!

2018

• Honoring Dr. Lina Abirafeh
• Closing Ceremony: Capacity Building for Law Enforcement Personnel on GBV Prevention and Response

2017

• OPEN HOUSE: Blue is for boys and Pink for girls!
• Towards Prioritizing Women, Peace and Security on the Arab Agenda
• Promundo: Men of Quality Are Not Afraid of Gender Equality
• Gender Training for Iraqi Academics and Researchers
• International Women’s Day 2017: Gender and Language
• Honoring Dr. Julinda Abu Nasr

2016

• Book launch by Yakin Erturk
• IWSAW with the students on LAU Campus
• 16 Days: Launch of a music video by Mike Masi
• 16 Days of Activism: Panel Discussion
• Public event on the 16 Days of Activism
• IWSAW’s song in the Marathon 2016
• Book signing with Christina Lamb
• IWSAW participates in 2016 Beirut Marathon
• Speaking for Beirut: Woman, War, and the City in the Narrative of the Lebanese Australian Female Novelist, Nada Awar Jarrar
• LAU and ESCWA Conference on Women, Peace and Security Concludes, Launches Beirut Call for Action
• Proposal Writing Workshop for Lebanese CSOs
• Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it Up for Gender Equality
• Women in Municipal Councils in Support of Local Development

2015

• Launching of the Training Sessions on the Basic Living Skills Program
• IWSAW at the Consultative Experts Group Meeting organized by UN-ESCWA and CMRS
• Panel Discussion: Women in Governance
• International women’s day: “Look Where We Are, Still”
• Lecture: Gender and Armed Conflict

2014

• Film Screening of the Award Winning Film by Zeina Daccache “Scheherazade’s Diary”
• Roundtable on Gender Research in Iraq: Reality & Expectations
• International Conference: Arab Countries in Transition: Gender Rights and Constitutional Reforms
• It’s your right to run, run for your right!
• International women’s day: Launching the national campaign to “Protect Underage Girls from Early Marriage”

2013

• IWSAW, Thomson Reuters Foundation Train Journalists
• Final Ceremony: “Capacity Building for Law Enforcement Personnel in Lebanon in the Field of Human Rights”
• Training Workshop: Basic Living Skills Program (BLSP)
• Ceremony for Announcing Winners of Article-Writing Contest on GBV
• Reinforcement of the communication skills in the field of fighting gender-based violence of the Media Students at the Lebanese American University
• International Women’s Day - 2013
• Capacity Building for Law Enforcement Personnel in Lebanon on Human Rights
• Regional Roundtable: Challenges Facing Iraqi Women Seeking Their Legal Rights
• “Reconciliation: Committed to Staying Together, One People, Multiple Confessions”

2012

• Young Arab Women Leaders: The Voice of the Future
• Workshop: “Gender Training for Iraqi Academics & Researchers”
• Workshop: “Engendering Transitional Justice”
• Luncheon with Danish Ambassador to Lebanon
• International Women’s Day
• Symposium: “Women in the Arab Spring”

2011

• Panel discussion: “A Future with Opportunities to End Violence Against Women with Youth in Lebanon”
• Rise With the Prize
• Lecture: “Combating Human Trafficking: Looking Beyond Law Enforcement”
• Launch: Guide for Working in Women Prisons in Lebanon
• Gender Studies in Holland
• Regional roundtable: “Women Empowerment Through Research”
• The “Who Is She” database regional workshop