As part of Democracy Reporting International Lebanon's closing event of its media project 2024, Hayat Mirshad, editor-in-chief of Sharika wa Laken feminist platform, spoke in a panel about the sustainability and impact of independent media. Mirshad emphasized the role of feminist media in promoting women's and girls' rights and amplifying their voices during the currently [...]
24 Hours for Palestine: A Moon Will Rise from Darkness A twenty-four hour online event featuring one hundred+ global artists and activists for a free Palestine Session #13: Feminism & Palestine: How Our Liberation is Mutual, Collective & Intertwined A discussion with regional feminist activists on political feminism, colonization & the patriarchy and how [...]
The feminist movement in the Levant has been making noise in the last decades as powerful women take the lead on many initiatives focusing on feminist and women's issues. FEMALE and Sharika Wa Laken are just a few of these organizations empowering change. Join Stephani Moukhaiber and Hayat Mirshad in this episode on the rise [...]
Written by: MILKA FIJALKOWSKA Journalist, Reporter TVN24 Saturday, 5:40 pm we were sitting in a police van, one of the girls counted that there were seventeen of us. It was hot, there was not enough air, one of the girls was struggling to catch her breath. I looked at Hayat, she was terrified. She was [...]
Written by: Nadia Ahmad Journalist, writer and producer July 29th, 2023, it was a Saturday afternoon when I first heard the calming voice of Hayat Mirshad. Although I had heard of Hayat and her activism, I had never met or spoken to her. At the time, weekends were the harshest on me. I was yet [...]
The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women was held from March 6 to 17, 2023 in New York City, with the primary focus being the theme of "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls." Hayat Mirshad, [...]
Op-ed By Hayat Mirshad, At the beginning of my engagement in the feminist movement, I publicly criticized another feminist and soon came to regret it. As my activism matured and I alongside it, I realized that this kind of behavior only serves to harm a movement already operating in a society much too eager to [...]
Hayat Mirshad was hosted as a speaker at the Joumana Haddad Freedom Center, where she had a much interesting discussion with young girls and boys about feminism, women's rights and role of men in combating violence against women.
