Dear Joumana,
I see you are preparing for the launch of your new book “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman” by Saqi this September. Congratulations.
I am writing you this letter because I read through your interview in the Guardian last week and big keywords popped out of the page: Hezbollah, Lebanon, seaside, Scheherazade, [...]
On Friday, August 20, 2010, an overjoyed crowd of feminists gathered at Nasawiya’s new space in Beirut to celebrate its much-anticipated inauguration.
During the evening, while many raised their glasses to bridge past initiatives with those to come, others played baby-foot, or indulged in tarot reading sessions. Nevertheless, the highlight of the evening was SoliRose’s intense and [...]
June 11
As the old-time tramway left Ataturk Airport to meander in unfamiliar streets, and as I watched the city slowly unravel its sounds and colors to my reluctant eye, I wasn’t able to foresee the most intense twelve days I was about to live; I wasn’t able to tell I was on the very edge [...]
Sometimes I wonder if our struggle makes any sense at all. You may think I am pessimistic but I am not. I am just trying to be realistic and critical of the situation. We take one step forward, and society, along with the government, pull us back, forcing us to take ten steps in the [...]
مع تسارع الأحداث بفلسطين وتسارع أصحاب الرأي للإشادة والإستنكار وتبادل التهم بالمواضيع المرتبطة، من قريب ومن بعيد بالقضية. أكتر من مرّة طلع على بخصوص نداءات ومقالات داعمة للحقوق الإنسانية بفلسطين. وعلى كل مفرق حقوقي و/أو فكري، بيوقف عالقليلة البعض تيسألوا إذا مفروض نركّز هالقد على موضوع غير مرتبط بمجموعات الدعوة للتحرر من القوالب الإجتماعية الجنسية والجندرية. هيدا السؤال بيكتسب أهمية أكبر ضمن الإطار اللبناني والإنقسام الطائفي/العنصري من أي موضوع مرتبط بالقضية الفلسطينية
You say you want a revolution well you know we all want to change the world.
~ The Beatles
We all talk about the revolution; I will talk to you about the revolution.
You want to go down to the streets, and show the world who we are and what we are made of, they have been imposing [...]
I have an STI. I was diagnosed ten years ago at the NY Gay and Lesbian Health Clinic. I was 20, a university graduate who had just moved to NY from Beirut and was living with her girlfriend in Brooklyn. One night, I felt a sharp pain in my genitals that increased with every step of my evening walk. When I got home, frustrated that my workout had been less than satisfactory, I went into the bathroom and noticed a sore on my vagina. I told my girlfriend, she took a look, and we made an appointment at the clinic for the next day.
At the clinic, a friendly female butch doctor examined me. She was the first gynecologist I had been too.
A lot of people asked us to talk about the Armenian Genocide, and how it feels to be a queer Armenian in Lebanon. There is not one way to being Armenian in Lebanon, not one way of integration. Shant comes from a mixed family whereas S.’s parents are Armenian. Their experiences differ but the questions [...]
Exactly two years ago today, April 19, I went to a meeting in Morocco around resource mobilization for women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Over 100 of the region’s top women’s rights advocates were there and it was the first time I meet them. I was extremely nervous about being an out Arab lesbian in their midst, knowing that most of them saw me as diseased or abnormal, and certainly that all of them believed I didn’t belong in a conference like theirs. My experience at that meeting, however, was life-changing [...]
In the past, clergy sex abuse cases were frequently reported mainly in the United States. This was never given particular attention by church officials in Rome because it was often blamed on the US anti-Catholic culture and media hostility towards the church. However, this month, the church is witnessing a clergy sex abuse crisis in [...]
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