Sawt al Niswa | صوت النسوة

Audre Lorde, quote mining and rambles from an editor in despair

Sara Emiline AbuGhazal

It’s spring again. Unfortunately not everyone is in love and flowers are nowhere close to picking themselves[1]. Yet it’s a wonderful spring, Mubarak has been overthrown, Ben Ali has been kicked out and in our hearts we are jumping north, as Damascus is about to rise.

Gentrification and the fight for one’s home

Yasmin Ali

In one episode of CSI Miami, the group of skilled detectives have to deal with a crime at a neighborhood under ‘planned’ gentrification. The government was evicting inhabitants from their homes, paying half the property price and selling it to a development company to build a hotel. The law-respecting squad then finds itself in an ethical dilemma: does it allow the eviction and follow the court decision, or does it fight it for the sake of disinherited powerless families?

Mamnou3 el mourour! Just Another Day on the Streets of Beirut

Dima Karam

Sometimes I feel so confused, I’m under the illusion that I have to choose.

عن وضع العاملات يلي جايين من القمر

Farah Salka فرح سلكا

كيف كدت أقتل الممرضة وعامل الصندوق:

Yasmin Ali

لمطر ينهمر في الخارج وأنا بالي مشغول.

Mother’s Day Hypocrisy

Sara Emiline AbuGhazal

Ya3ni, we all know that corporations get especially greedy around Mother’s Day trying to shove ads down our throats everywhere we look. And it’s hypocritical of Lebanon to celebrate mothers anyway when they are so blatantly inferior to fathers in almost every aspect of the law. If you love mothers so much, give them their right to guardianship of their children at least!