English and Arabic Follows. This letter is open for signatures from Lebanon.
Dear Nazra for Feminist Studies,
Beirut, 23 MARCH 2016
Following the news of the investigation on Nazra in the case 173 of “civil society and foreign funds,” we find ourselves unable to digest the amount of intimidation and oppression that now fill the spaces between us.
Women have been struggling on a daily basis for equality and justice. They have been defying the impossible through daily practices of courage and defiance. Women in the MENA region are standing alone against all odds, surviving a deadly mixture of oppressive and patriarchal regimes, ISIS, occupation, war, violence, displacement and loss.