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This article is based on an interview conducted with Dr. Adnan Houbballah, a psychoanalyst, who assisted patients during the Lebanese civil war.

"One Person Alone Cannot Defy an Entire System" - An Interview with Na'maat Ken'aan

Women in Lebanon have always been involved in the national struggle. Southernwomen resisted the occupation physically and emotionally. Moreover, during theLebanese war, women were the unknown soldiers who kept the family together.Although, women were active participants in public life they were never given achance to participate in politics on an equal basis with men. Men should encouragewomen to be involved in politics. We should move from rallying for women to integrating them in order to succeed in the world of politics.

On December 3rd, 2004 the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union, (LPHU), in collaboration with various national and foreign associations held its Second Human Rights and Disability Film Festival. The three-day event took place at Estral Theater in Hamra and coincided with the International Day of Disabled Persons. The idea of the festival came about in 2003. The aim was to raise awareness about disability issues and to create a forum to highlight many of the issues facing disabled people.

With the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) returning to Beirut after more than fifteen years,' I had the chance to meet Fatima Sbaity-Kassem,' Chief of the Women and Development (WAD) Unit at ESCWA.

''Women today want to be financially independent" - An Interview with Wafa Yunis

Once every month Diana Moukalled appears on Future TV in a new episode of her program BiI'ayn al Mujarradeh (Through the Naked Eye). In each episode she embarks on a new journey to a different country and reports from there on the prevalent situation. I met Diana Moukalled at the Institute for Women's Studies, and we managed to have a quiet conversation something that would have proven very difficult had we chosen Future TV.

We are aware of the difficult tasks awaiting us because we fight for new relations and conceptions which negate the causes of human oppression, whether male or female. We seek a new understanding of human rights. We do not pretend having the solutions but we seek to find the appropriate ones ...

She is Virginie Asmar the only female taxi driver among forty men working at Auto Tour, a reputable taxi company. When I first heard about her I was intrigued to find out what compelled her to take up such a male dominated profession. I called Auto Tour and fixed an appointment.

Dr. Mouin Hamze currently presides the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Research In stitute (ARI) at the Ministry of Agriculture, the only official Agricultural Center in Lebanon. ARI was established in 1956 and embraces seven main stations for research distributed along the entire Lebanese agro-ecological zone

Ghena Majzoub, a twelve year old student at the National Institute for Girls and Boys - Saida, was elected president of the first Lebanese Municipal Council for Children in December, 1999. According to Ms. Nigar Hankeer, coordinator of the Municipal Council for Children - Hariri Foundation, the creation of this council took place at the initiative of Mrs. Bahia Hariri, who came to know about the idea while on a visit to Tunisia.

Women's Role in Politics: The Quota System was the subject of a round table discussion held at the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World last March. The participants were Azza Sharara Baydoun, Iqbal Doughan, Najla Hamadeh, Mona Khalaf, Linda Mattar, Joseph Moawad, and Fawwaz Traboulsi.

Confusion may be inevitable when it comes to personal relations: so much of it is based on nuance, anyway. But it's also true that sexual harassment law, perhapsmore than most, is constantly evolving as each new case comes before the courts and establishes new precedents. Thus, what today would be a perfectly obvious (and winnable) case of harassment of a woman loses her job because she won't sleep with her boss was far from obvious to judges in the early I 970s. (Ms Magazine, p. 50)

The Working Women League in Lebanon, founded in December 1994, is a non governmental organization under the umbrella of the Lebanese Women's Council.

The realms of human existence - the state, the economy, society, culture and the environment." (Policy Eradication: A Policy Framework for Country Strategies. UNDP, 1995). A person is considered poor if he/she fails to procure a minimum standard of living, considered the norm, which is socially determined.