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 [...]
Over a period of 4 months, Hayat Mirshad worked with Diakonia International to develop the capacities of its regional partners in the MENA on feminist principles and ethics, gender justice programming and context, and ensuring a feminist work environment. Following the capacity development phase, Mirshad worked on developing a guiding document to help partners put [...]
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 [...]
Source: FEMALE organization Despite the increased backlash against the feminist and LGBTQ+ movement in Lebanon, on Saturday, September 30, 2023, a group of 30 associations, organizations, and media and human rights institutions, among them, FEMALE, aimed at organizing a march under the title “Freedoms March”, during which a significant violation of freedoms occurred. This march [...]
A group of independent activists and journalists carried out a movement in front of the Palace of Justice in Beirut, in the wake of summoning the editor-in-chief of “Sharika Wa Laken” platform, Hayat Mirshad, to appear before the Cybercrimes Bureau. Earlier, The Alternative Press Syndicate had called for action to protest the obstinate refusal of [...]
In a new attempt to suppress journalists and activists and silence them, The Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Protection Bureau subpoenaed Editor in Chief of “Sharika wa Laken” and the Executive Director of FEMALE Organization, journalist and feminist activist, Hayat Mirshad, to appear before the Bureau next Thursday, on June 1. The Bureau, an affiliate to [...]
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, [...]
