Do you want to get an overview of the environmental activism scene in Lebanon? Read this joint publication by AUB Nature Conservation Center and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Middle East, titled “Grassroots Environmental Activism in Lebanon: David vs Goliath?
This report provides a situation analysis of women in Lebanon. Overall, it examines gender, feminism, sexuality, queer, and human rights conditions and challenges. The reading takes place in the context of Lebanon’s severe economic collapse, especially after the Beirut Port Blast and the lockdowns imposed during the pandemic over the past two years.
My nationality is my right has a long history in Lebanon.
In a country, that does not treat its citizens equally; women cannot pass their nationality to their husbands and children if they have a binational marriage.
To this day, this law is still on papers.
In this paper, Benita argue that the performative citizenship of the children in these families is not only expressed through their political and social activism for a more inclusive citizenship law. Rather, by finding coping strategies to exercise basic human rights and by having an affective citizenship meaning they feel Lebanese and therefore state their right to be Lebanese on paper, they are performing Lebanese citizenship.