By Rana Amr You are in the 3rd grade, you’re sitting on your bench in class reading the Arabic subject book with your teacher, and then you read a sentence that says, "My Mom prepares food while Dad reads the newspaper". You may not feel it, but that’s when the idea was planted in your [...]
In an eight-minute video report, Hayat Mirshad portrayed the reality and struggles of women and girls not only in the Arab world, but across the globe. Following naming her as one of BBC’s Top 100 Influencers, Mirshad’s activism and work towards advancing women’s rights and improving their statuses was highlighted in SkyNews نجاحهنّ Programme, which [...]
This year, Hayat Mirshad has been selected as one of CARE International’s Feminist Advisory Board members (FAB) representing the Middle East and North Africa along with three other feminist activists from grassroots, national, regional and international civil society movements representing Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. The FAB will contribute to the [...]
Elizabeth Gregory talks to Hayat Mirshad, the activist and journalist fighting for a better future in a country struggling to survive. Power cuts have been a regular occurrence in Lebanon for decades — but now the country is on the precipice of falling into total darkness. When I meet Hayat Mirshad, activist and journalist, co-founder of feminist [...]
By: Tala Ramadan One month on, Nawal El Saadawi’s tribute of Love was set in the middle of the Lebanese capital- Beirut to tell her stories and share narratives with those who interacted with Nawal or her writings. On Sunday 25th of April, Riad Al-Solh Square was filled with women who organize, mobilize, fight, work, [...]
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 [...]
To inform the discussions at the 65th Commission on the Status of Women and look at the state of legal and constitutional reform in the region, with particular consideration to progress toward eliminating violence against women, and the impact of COVID-19, Karama Women’s Network hosted a three-day digital conference in March 2021. The organizers sought [...]
Feminists, journalists and authors from the Arab world have gathered virtually to pay tribute to the life and legacy of the late Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the leading Egyptian feminist activist and writer who died on Sunday March 21, 2021 at the age of 89, and vowed her work would live on through the generations [...]
For the occasion of the International Women's Day 2021, Hayat Mirshad was invited to conduct four different awareness raising sessions tackling the issues of women's rights, feminism and the rise of domestic violence and crimes against women and girls. Instagram Live attended by 36 young girls and boys and organized by the Women's movement club [...]
A webinar titled "#IWD2021: Ensuring Women’s Right to Peaceful Assembly" and organized by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the Mesoamerican Initiative of women human rights defenders, and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément N. Voule, where Hayat Mirshad shared as a speaker her experience and [...]
