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The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship is a regional hub for a dynamic community of academics, practitioners, and civil society actors in exploring traditional and innovative forms of associational life and in advancing realistic solutions to the obstacles to effective civil society and citizenship in the Arab region. 

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Women of Afghanistan: My Voice to My Home

Part 5 of the Afghan series in collaboration with FEMENA

When? Wednesday, May 11, 2022
What time? 11:00 AM EST, 6:00 PM Beirut time


Speaker: Zahra Yagana, Founder and Head, Green Home

In the fifth event of the series Women of Afghanistan: My Voice to My Home, The Asfari Institute in collaboration with FEMENA will be hosting Zara Yagana, Founder and Head of Green Home. Zahra Yagana is an advocate for a life free from violence against women and girls in Afghanistan. She is the Founder and CEO of a nonprofit organization, Green Home, that helped provide scholarships and healthcare to children affected by suicide bombings. For over 15 years, she has worked as civil society and environmental activist, project manager, consultant, and country coordinator in several governments, NGOs, and INGOs, She holds a Bachelor’s of Law and Political Science. Above all mentioned, Zahra is the author of the bestselling book Roshnal_khakestar (Light of Ash), which is based on her own experience as a woman who has been a victim of violence and then worked to end it.

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Latest News & Articles

  • Corona’s Storm in Algeria: Only the Beginning

    Amidst this political upheaval, Algeria faced an unprecedented and unpleasant new crisis, the corona pandemic. On March 12th, 2020, the Algerian health ministry announced the first death from the novel coronavirus. Essentially, this meant that Algeria was about to face not only a public health crisis but also a difficult political and socioeconomic challenge given…

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  • The case of women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon: between the uprising and the COVID-19 crisis

    The October 17 uprising provided a unique moment in history where all demands for all people came together and gave a case in point in how rights are indivisible and inalienable and how justice can only be all-inclusive rather than selective. How did the various movements and activism of migrant domestic women mutate and mature?…

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  • Asfari Institute unveils its first cohort of senior civil society fellows

    The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship is delighted to introduce its first three senior civil society fellows: Dr. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay is a Social Anthropologist with more than four decades of solid global research, activism, writing, and community engagement experience in gender and development. She has contributed to the conceptual framing of the gender…

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#Publication

​Domestic Work in Lebanon Post-2019: Reflections on Emerging Trends

​Imane El Hayek and Zeina Ammar

How has the domestic labor market changed post-2019 and what future changes can we expect to see in the next few years? This analytical report aims to present the emerging trends in the domestic labor market, at the levels of policy (government), public discourse (government and media), and on the ground (workers, employers, and brokers). 

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Podcast: Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini is an award-winning Jordanian journalist with 25+ years of experience. In her work, she focuses on social issues with a special emphasis on violence against women, as well as the brutal crimes that are committed against Jordanian women in the name of family honor.

In this podcast episode, we learn more about what drew Rana into the world of journalism and how that field could be utilized to advocate for women’s rights. We also talk to her about her recent book about women’s movement in Jordan and the possible progress in the landscape of violence against women in the Arab region.

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