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Hate Crimes and Mother Tongues


Posted by Guest Contributor on 23 Nov 2015 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Guest contributor Seema Shafei (@seemashafei). I’ll never forget the time a classmate turned to me and said that we couldn’t elect Obama because his middle name was Hussein. You never know, she told me. He could be just like Saddam. If a name could elicit this much fear, a language […]

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Is Women’s Empowerment as Simple as Drawing a Line? Thoughts on the Khede Kasra Campaign


Posted by emanhashim on 11 Nov 2009 / 0 Comments
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Back in early 2008, the Hariri Foundation’s Women Empowerment Program wanted to start a national campaign addressing Lebanese society—all its classes, religions, and cultural backgrounds—with one goal: that the idea of “women’s rights” is not a prestigious cliché, but a value and a part in our daily life. So they hired Leo Burnett to do […]

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