This study looks into the forms of relief provided by grassroots collective, Samidoun, during the July 2006 war on Lebanon, focusing on the expertise and transformative spaces such groups produce. It argues that a total reliance on professionalization and NGO-ization in aid provision can prevent the emergence of civil resistance forms of relief.

This paper seeks to reflect on women's organizations in Lebanon. While women’s advocacy groups seemed to be gaining momentum in mobilization, acheiving reform is more problematic. In this vein, this paper attempts to problematize the complex relation between the sectarian regime in Lebanon as an agent of social control and the women’s movement.

This study looks into the detention and arrest of transwomen, viewing them as processes that define and re-enable gender- and body-policing rather than endpoints or markers of discrimination in themselves. Based on informal interviews, the paper argues that transwomen are more likely to be subjected to longer detention spans due to a system of detention and criminalization that breaks existing community ties and makes it difficult for transwomen to navigate their detention and release processes.

This paper examines the status of women in Lebanon in terms of their participation in politics and decision-making processes as well as their socio-economic conditions, and it offers a review of some the recent strategies adopted to enhance women’s status in Lebanon while highlighting their limits in the particular Lebanese socio-political context.