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Prima facie arrest warrant against wife killer in Ras el Nabeh

8-2-2018

The First Investigative Judge in Beirut, Ghassan Oweidat, questioned yesterday Fadi Assaker accused of killing his wife last month and issued a prima facie warrant for his arrest. To recall, Assaker has killed his wife Nada Bahlawan (born in 1975) in Ras el Nabeh neighborhood of Beirut on January 23 and disappeared but was caught and detained four days later by the General Security forces in Al Masnaa area. (Al Diyar, February 8, 2018)

 

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British scholarship, in memory of Rebecca Dykes

8-2-2018

In commemoration of the death of British diplomat, Rebecca Dykes, who was raped and killed by a taxi driver on the Matn Highway on December 16, 2017, (https://goo.gl/nb1nLW), a ceremony was held yesterday at Mar Elias Church- Kantari, Beirut, during which British Ambassador Hugo Shorter announced the annual ‘Rebecca Dykes Chevening Scholarship’. The latter will be granted each year to a Lebanese or Palestinian refugee residing in Lebanon to pursue her Master’s degree in the UK in majors related to gender, peace and conflict, development and human rights, and refugee and migration studies. To promote her legacy in the humanitarian field, Rebecca’s family hopes to raise adequate funds to set up the charitable Rebecca Dykes Foundation which will focus on humanitarian and stabilization work for refugees and other vulnerable communities, with special focus on women’s empowerment and the prevention of violence against them. For donations, kindly visit JustGiving page on the following link: http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rebecca-j-dykes . (Al Mustaqbal, February 8, 2018)

 

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French corporate support to Lebanese SMEs

8-2-2018

The French container transportation and shipping company, CMA CGM group, founded by French-Lebanese businessman Jack Saadeh, concluded a partnership yesterday with SMART ESA affiliated with l’Ecole Superieure des Affaires (ESA) to support Lebanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) incubated by SMART through the Merit Venture investment fund. Accordingly, each startup will receive a cash grant of USD 25,000 to USD 30,000 in return for 8.5% of its profits. SMART ESA managing director, Jihad Bitar, said the cooperation will accompany startups in the most difficult phase to help them reach the funds required to launch their businesses, and will, as well, back entrepreneurs on the long term to facilitate their access to external markets. SMART ESA has supported some 30 startups in 2017, and is expected to support 30 enterprises shortlisted for this year as of this coming March. For his part, the head of the French Regional Economic Missions, Jacques de Lajugie, said this partnership is another step forward in the French companies’ commitment to the development of entrepreneurship and creation of jobs in Lebanon.  (L’Orient Le Jour, February 8, 2018)

 

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Russian Ambassador: cooperation with the Syrian government to participate in post-war reconstruction

7-2-2018

The president of the Gathering of Lebanese Businessmen and Businesswomen (RDCL World), Fuad Zamakhal, disclosed during a lunch on February 5, with the Russian Ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zaspekin, that Lebanon can play a pivotal role in the reconstruction of war-torn Syria. Due to its leading humanitarian contribution to the crisis of the displaced Syrians on its territory, Lebanon is entitled to participate, directly or indirectly, and in partnership and synergy with Russian companies in rebuilding the neighboring country, Zamakhal said. He hoped Lebanon can extend this help through resident and expatriate firms and hence expand its stake in the reconstruction project. Lebanon, RDCL president explained, is going through its most difficult period in its history, at the economic, social, political and security levels, in addition to general recession and the shrinking investment and tourism activities. As regards the ongoing conflicts in the region, Lebanon is at an equal distance from all parties, Zamakhal noted, pointing to the essential role Russia has played in ending the fighting and combatting terrorism in Syria.” Zaspekin, for his part, pointed out that with the gradual return of stability to Syria and the improved humanitarian situation there, a new and broader horizon opens for the return of refugees and the reconstruction of the state with the participation of parties cooperating with the Syrian government. Lebanon shall play a major role in this regard, Zaspekin pledged. (Al Mustaqbal, February 6, 2018)

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President Aoun honors novelist Emily Nasrallah with order of the cedar

7-2-2018

President Michel Aoun granted novelist and writer Emily Nasrallah the Commander of the National Order of the Cedar in recognition of her literary contributions. The minister of justice, Salim Jreisati, representing President Aoun handed Nasrallah the medal at her residence in the Hamra neighborhood of Beirut instead of the presidential palace in Baabda due to her delicate health condition. Nasrallah thanked President Aoun for his initiative wishing him success in his leadership. To note, Nasrallah (born in 1931) is a Lebanese author from the town of Kfeir, South Lebanon. She published a number of novels and children’s books and received many awards, including Poet Saeed Akl’s Prize in Lebanon, Fairuz Magazine Prize, Khalil Jibran Prize from the Ara Heritage Union, Australia and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Prize for ‘A Cat’s Diary’ novel. ( Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, February 7, 2018)

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Achievement of Dina el Mawla, President of Islamic University of Lebanon

6-2-2018

In its issue of January 3, L’Orient Le Jour spotlighted the career path of Dr. Dina el Mawla, the president of the Islamic University of Lebanon since 2016. El Mawla said that during her first year at the University, she introduced significant changes in the administration and education system. She intentionally recruited new deans for the different schools whom she selected according to specific criteria or conditions, such as: They should be between 35-50 years; have completed their higher studies abroad; have extensive experience in administrative and academic positions and are in command of at least two foreign languages. El Mawla made clear that she has actually started recruiting new professors who are bilingual and hold doctorates degrees. On the education system, she said that she has introduced the (bachelor’s, master’s and doctorates degrees) in all faculties and made foreign language as a required course throughout the 5-years of study. Referring to the cooperation with the French Embassy, El Mawla disclosed an intention to conclude agreements with universities in Asia and the Americas. Asked if she has faced challenges as a woman in this position, El Mawla said she has had difficulties but not because she was a woman president, but because of the radical changes she enforced, stating that she was chosen for her extensive experience and serious work. (L’Orient Le Jour, February 3, 2018)

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Machnuq appeals to women to actively participate in the elections

6-2-2018

Despite government’s failure to adopt the women’s quota in the new elections bill, and with the approach of the date set for the upcoming Parliamentary elections, politicians are stepping up their token calls to promote women’s participation in politics. In this respect, the Minister of Interior, Nuhad Machnuq, appealed to women yesterday to engage actively in the elections, both as candidates and voters, in order to prove their strength and reinforce their national role, wishing them a greater stake in the next parliament. Machnuq also focused on people with special needs, mentioning that his ministry will take technical and logistical measures to facilitate their voting and enable them to exercise their full rights. To this effect, the ministry has introduced 10 polling stations accessible for people with disabilities. (Al Mustaqbal, February 6, 2018)

 

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Calls for halting imports of Egyptian potato

6-2-2018

The minister of agriculture, Ghazi Z3aiter, received a phone call from the Egyptian ambassador to Beirut, Nazih Najari, to discuss the date of importation of Egyptian potato to Lebanon that was set for February 8 according to an agreement between the two countries; L’Orient Le Jour reported today citing NNA. The agreement signed in 1998 allows the exchange of specific agricultural goods during specific months of the year. Z3aiter informed Najari on the outcome of his meeting with a large delegation of potato growers in the Beqaa and Akkar regions who demanded a delay of the date of import of potato from Egypt until after February 15 in order to avoid dumping the domestic market with supplementary quantities and incurring additional losses on the Lebanese farmers. Currently, there are nearly 20,000 tons of this year's harvest waiting to be disposed of. After the Egyptian ambassador voiced his disapproval for the non-compliance on Lebanon’s part with the agreement, Z3aiter stressed the keenness of the Lebanese government, presidency and legislative to maintain the best relations with Egypt but at the same time to secure the interests of the Lebanese farmers. To recall, Z3aiter received on Sunday around 300 farmers from various Beqaa areas who threatened to discard and toss what remained of their produce on the roads if the Egyptian potatoes were allowed in before February 15 or before the stored supplies were completely marketed.  (Al Diyar, L’Orient Le Jour, February 5, 6, 2018)

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A Moroccan novelist links moral liberalization to women’s emancipation

6-2-2018

The author Lina Kannush stated, in an article published in Al-Akhbar today’s newspaper, that the essentialist tendency of the Moroccan novelist Leila Suleimany was taking over again. Ms. Kannush clarified that, as a response to a defeatist text published by “Le Monde” newspaper and signed by a collective of 100 women under the title of “The freedom to harass” (c.f: http://bit.ly/2BVDhfw), Ms. Suleimany wrote an article characterized with narcissism under the title of “You were born a pig”. The novelist drew the features of a new cultural essentialist class, while carrying the banner of a feminism that is unique to a petty bourgeoisie. Ms. Kannush added, “Although both texts defend freedom’s negative outlook that ignores the concrete reality, to become as such the unique path towards moral “liberalization” as a basis for emancipation, Suleimany’s article reproduces a cultural essentialist discourse”. Ms. Kannush also reiterated some questions that were asked by Leila in her article, including “Will the women walking in the streets of Cairo, New Delhi, Lima, Mosul, Kinshasa and Casablanca worry due to the absence of seduction and chivalry? Do they themselves have the right, to seduce, choose, and harass?”, while clarifying that it was these miserable women that were confined within their societies and suffocated from moral restrictions, that were waiting for these pioneers ranting about women’s emancipation to eradicate them from their misery and put them on the road to pleasure that no inhibition can reach. Kannush continued “Hence, Leila Suleimany, this false rebel equipped with the French media’s praise, is declaring her obedience to the uppish progressive discourse that creates a strict causal rapport between moral liberalization and emancipation, then subsequently progress”, and said Ms. Suleimany was promoting a narcissistic individualism for pleasure (for more information about the article, please see: http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/290135). (Al-Akhbar, February 1st, 2018).

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Women refugees in Beqaa camps under the mercy of the “Shawish”

5-2-2018

In a special feature today, Al Hayat newspaper noted that for every Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon there is a shawish (chief) who supervises, organizes and is the link between the camp’s residents and the outside world. In one of the camps, so-termed “widows’ camp”, in the Beqaa area, Al Hayat wrote, lives a group of 40-50 widowed women displaced along with their children, but who cannot leave the camp for any reason without the permission of the shawish. The latter has become more like a ‘mahram’ (allowable male escort) to dozens of widows living within the camp, where none can act without returning to him. Widows residing in the camp pay the shawish in return for delivering daily services, including purchase of household items or a lift in his own car when need arises, the newspaper said. But the rules enforced by the power of money reach sometimes the extent of separating the boys when they reach the age of 9 from their mothers to live in independent caravans located outside the camp. They are allowed to stay with their moms during the day but are separated from them at night, the newspaper wrote. Human rights and relief workers fear that this situation which is in clear violation of the rights of refugees, could very well cultivate and foster sexual abuse of both women and children, become a hotbed for extremists and possibly later a base for recruiting outlaws to do illicit businesses. Um Mariam, a resident of a Beqaa camp, best described the situation when she said: “We live at the mercy of the shawish, the bully who leaves us cowering in fear of his admonishment.” The article can be found on this link: https://goo.gl/79Aroy. (Al Hayat, February 5, 2018)

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