Honoring Nazek Saba Yared at Assabil
Launching Bahithat Vol. 14
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WHO IS "BAHITHAT?"
The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers (LAWR or Bahithat) is a forum for dynamic dialogue and the free exchange of ideas and expertise. As its members engage in the production of quality research, LAWR provides a venue for encouraging women’s self-expression, meeting, and networking. LAWR is interested in safeguarding researchers’ rights and in promoting the advancement of the work of women researchers. especially the young and less experienced. It encourages group work that frequently includes researchers of both genders, from outside the association.
BAHITHAT MEMBERS
Bahithat members have been engaged in scholarly activities in Lebanon and the Arab world. The idea for Bahithat arose during the long civil war in Lebanon when women scholars on both sides of the divide, refusing the forced divisions along confessional lines and insisting on the unity of the people, and wishing to carry on intellectual exchange despite the raging violence, began to meet regularly to discuss matters of intellectual interest. By the time the war ended, the meetings had become so important a part of our lives that we resolved to carry them on. We sought a more formal organizational existence, and received formal recognition in 1992.
ACTIVITIES
LAWR produces a yearly volume “Bahithat”. It holds monthly meetings in each of which a research project is introduced and/or discussed. Work-days around chosen topics are held three or four times each year. Beside these fixed activities, LAWR organizes conferences and work-shops on topics like Children’s Literature, Feminism, Civil Society, and Women and Money.