Past Events

General Events

Fantasmic Objects: On the Possibilities of Art Anthropology

Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950, is the product of thirty years of research that Scheid did between 1993 and 2022. It’s a book that explores the history of art in a place that is often considered to lack art; she wanted to be attentive to the practice of “no art”.

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Upholding Women’s Equal Citizenship in Nationality Laws in the MENA Region

On March 6, 2023 the Asfari Institute, with The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and Muwatin Media Network, organized the hybrid event in which civil society leaders from across the region discussed why gender-equal nationality laws are essential to women’s equal citizenship, as well as children’s rights, sustainable development, and realizing inclusive societies.

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Event: Setting an Inclusive Framework for Human Security and Social Justice within the IMF and GoL Restructuring and Reform Plan

On March 3, 2023, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, in partnership with Malala Fund and the Issam Fares Institute, organized a High-Level Policy Forum “Setting an Inclusive Framework for Human Security and Social Justice within the IMF and GoL Restructuring and Reform Plan: Education an equalizer and enabler”.

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Feminist Circle Series

Decolonizing Knowledge & Institutions: Towards a Rethinking of Feminist Knowledge Production

On November 24, 2022, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship organized the event “Decolonizing Knowledge & Institutions: Towards a Rethinking of Feminist Knowledge Production to reflect on how we can harness the collective political power of intersectional, decolonial, indigenous, queer, feminist, and racial justice movements and translate it into a profound transformation of…

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Funding Feminist Movements in the MENA: Analyzing the Current Ecosystem

This circle brings together feminist funds to discuss joint action and collaboration which seek to address the endemic issue of funding feminist movements and activism globally and in the MENA region. It also discusses the outcome and implications of the Generation Equality Forum which just took place in Paris in early June.

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Gender and Feminism Roundtable Series

‘Impostor Feminism’: Instrumentalizing and Depoliticizing Feminism

Introduction On June 09, 2022, at Auditorium B, West Hall, at the American University of Beirut (AUB) the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship invited guest speakers Paola Salwan Daher, senior global advocacy advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Fatma Torkhani, the founder and editor-in-chief of Arabia Vox to hold a panel…

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Dress Code and Bodily Agency

In an attempt to answer questions related to feminist activism in the MENA region, the circle provided a safe space for the discussion of multi-layered subjects, taboos, and dilemmas that the female is dogmatically constrained by. The speakers presented an in-depth analysis of a series of questions that investigate the brutal societal expectations and limitations…

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Women of Afghanistan: My Voice to My Home

Women of Afghanistan: My Voice to My Home, Pt. 5

This webinar’s guest speaker is Zara Yagana, the Founder and Head of Green Home who is an advocate for a life free from violence against women and girls in Afghanistan. She is the Founder and CEO of a nonprofit organization, Green Home, that helped provide scholarships and healthcare to children affected by suicide bombings.

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Women of Afghanistan: My Voice to My Home, Pt. 4

This webinar tackles important issues with poet, writer, and women human rights defender Hoda Khamosh. Hoda Khamosh, was one of the women protesters against the Taliban in Kabul during the past 6 months and was one of six Afghan women who were invited to sit with Taliban officials as they made their first invited visit…

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Nowruz 2022

For Afghanistan, especially after the Taliban took over in August of 2021, winter has been dominating over the blossoming of spring for the people of Afghanistan and especially for its women. Nowruz has been different this year. The day of celebrating joy and laughter with rich aromas and colors and songs and dances has not…

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Book Launches

Book Launch: For the War Yet to Come

The MSFEA Urban Lab and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut launched the book, “For the War Yet to Come” by Hiba Bou Akar, the assistant professor of urban planning at Columbia University. The writer argues that spaces for urban planning have become “post-conflict” battlegrounds for political…

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Book Launch: Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East

This book focuses on Civil-Military Relations (CMR) in Egypt, a country that witnessed uprisings calling for democratic change in January 2011, which led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak from the Presidency, the suspension of the constitution, and the dissolution of the parliament as well as the ruling of the National Democratic Party (NDP). Ironically,…

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