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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Lebanon women's rights

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki speaks during an interview in Beirut, on January 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 24, 2019, 8:46 pm
In first, Arab female filmmaker nominated for Academy Award
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s ‘Capernaum’ dramatizes struggles of Syrian refugees through the story of a boy and toddler on Beirut’s streets
By Sarah El Deeb
Drivers take part in the "Rallye des Graces" upon arriving in the Lebanese coastal city of Byblos, north of the capital Beirut, on May 19, 2018, during the first leg of the tour. / AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID
May 20, 2018, 1:52 am
Lebanon hosts first all-female classic car rally
28 drivers in two-day Rallye des Graces event include women from France, UK, China, and Algeria; driving from Beirut to the Syrian border
By AFP
In this Wednesday, January 17, 2018 photo, Victoria El-Khoury Zwein, a potential woman candidate in Lebanon's upcoming parliamentary elections, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Kempinski Summerland Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 21, 2018, 10:37 am
Lebanese women look for greater role in parliamentary elections
Just 4 women serve in the outgoing parliament elected in 2009, a flimsy 3% of country’s 128 lawmakers, among the lowest rates in the Middle East
By Sarah El Deeb
Lebanese activists use an installation of wedding dresses by Lebanese artist Mireille Honein at Beirut's Corniche to ramp up their campaign to press parliament to scrap Article 522 of Lebanon's penal code which allows rapists to escape punishement (AFP/Patrick Baz)
August 16, 2017, 4:25 pm
Lebanon annuls ‘marry the rapist’ law
Following similar move by Jordan, parliament in Beirut scraps article allowing rapists to escape punishment
By AP
Lebanese activists use an installation of wedding dresses by Lebanese artist Mireille Honein at Beirut's Corniche to ramp up their campaign to press parliament to scrap Article 522 of Lebanon's penal code which allows rapists to escape punishement (AFP/Patrick Baz)
April 22, 2017, 10:06 pm
Lebanon activists ramp up pressure on reviled rape law
Installation in Beirut of wedding dresses hanging from nooses protests law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free
By Maya Gebeily
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