Expressing Sexuality Through Art
To commemorate World Sexual Health Day (September 4), an art exhibit entitled “Good Sex/ Bad Sex/ No Sex/ Your Sex” was held at AltCity, in Hamra. “Sexuality is such a...
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Deconstructing Sexual Harassment
One of the challenges of addressing sexual harassment is that it is, to a large extent, hard to define. It could be reduced to “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual...
Speak Up Against Sexual Harassment
This illustration is my contribution to the blogging and tweeting day against sexual harassment and gender-based violence, a call to action on June 20 initiated by activists in Egypt. In Lebanon,...
In Solidarity With Saudi Women Daring To Drive
On June 17, 2011, tens of people gathered in front of the Saudi Embassy in Beirut in solidarity with Saudi women who defied the ultra-conservative Kingdom’s rule against women being able to...
Green The Grey In Sassine Square
On Saturday, June 4, 2011, which coincides with the World Environment Day weekend, Beirut Green Project held a public intervention called Green the Grey in Sassine Square, Achrafieh. The objective...
Handala Takes A Stand In Hamra
From approximately 1975 through 1987, Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees, with Handala, the refugee child, as their centerpiece. “The child Handala is...
Cost Of Sectarianism In Lebanon
On April 12, 2011, the Human Rights and Peace Club and the Secular Club at the American University of Beirut hosted a lecture by economist Dr. Jad Chaaban entitled “The...
10 Smoking Things
10 Things You Should Know About Smoking in Lebanon is an infographic I designed to support the new tobacco-control bill that has been submitted to the Lebanese Parliament. The new bill,...
Hi! Kifkon? Ça va? – A Google Doodle
I made this Google Doodle for Abaadblobs.com, the search engine for the Lebanese blogosphere developed by @migheille. “Hi! Kifkon? Ça va?” is the typical Lebanese greeting, combining English (Hi), Arabic...
By The River Ibrahim I Sat Down And Read…
By the River Ibrahim I Sat Down and Read… “Death at Intervals” by Jose Saramago “Death at Intervals” is set in an unnamed country where on the first day of...
