Announcement

Extracted from AIESEC website:

Please allow me to officially invite you to the first celebration of international women's day through AIESEC on AUC's new campus on Monday the 8th of March in Bassily Hall from 6 30 PM to 9 30.

International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

http://www. internationalwomensday.com/

AIESEC AUC is proud to be hosting the celebration of such a significant event on Monday the 8th of March in New Cairo on AUC Campus in Bassily Hall.

Agenda:

The event will first allow speakers from different NGOs to address different issues that women face in the Egyptian society. Followed is Ms. Mona Arishi the founder of L'EVE Institute (http://lei-egypt.com/) giving a session about the rich and versified feminine entity by focusing on the three planes and dimensions; Mind, Body, and Soul.
We will end the event with the play "kolna Laila":

كلنا ليلى

كلنا ليلى هي مبادره ليوم من أجل المرأه المضطهدة في المنطقة العربية. يقوم في هذا اليوم كتاب المدونات بنشر تدوينات تحت راية يوم كلنا ليلى لطرح ومناقشة المشكلات التي تواجهها المرأة في المجتمعات العربية. بدأت فكرة كلنا ليلى عن طريق مجموعة من كاتبات المدونات المصريات على رأسهم مدونة لست أدري، بنت مصرية، شيماء، أرابيسك، أبيتاف وأخريات. وبالرغم من أن بداية كلنا ليلى كانت من مجموعة من المدونات المصرية فإن القائمين على الإعداد ليوم كلنا ليلى يؤكدون أن يوم ليلى موجه للمرأة العربية عموما وليست المصرية فقط

مسرحية كلنا ليلى هي مبادرة من الفريق المسرحي بالجزويت المنيا و منظمة

Care International

تحت مشروع سلام و أمان. تهدف المسرحية لتسليط الضوء على العنف المنزلي ضد المرأة

This is an open event for everyone within and outside the AUC community, please feel free to bring your friends and spread the word.

We are pleased to announce that the New Woman Foundation will hold an open seminar to provide a critical reading and discussion of the contributing blog posts in Kolena Laila Campaign.

Having participated with us for the first time this year during Kolena Laila fourth Campaign, which lasted throughout the last week of 2009, and under this partnership, the Foundation invited people through its website to blog about a number of women's issues and other specific issues that concern women's status and the forms of discrimination they face, in addition to monitoring the reality of women within the dominant culture.

So the New Woman Foundation is pleased to invite you to attend the open seminar next Tuesday on 9th of February at 6:00pm.

What: Kolena Laila Open Discussion

When: Tuesday 9th of February, 06:00 pm

Where: New Woman Foundation Headquarter – 14 Aabdel Moniem Sanad St, off Ibn Aal Rasheed – Ahmed Orabi, El Mohandessein

For more details visit the event's page on Facebook.

Kolena Laila would like to invite you to join our campaign for open dialogue starting December 24th and ending December 31st, 2009. The campaign's objective this year is to promote discussion about women’s issues in Arab societies.

This year Kolena Laila will take the opportunity to bring stories of struggles and challenges that ultimately brought positive change to the organization as a whole to the forefront. The premise behind the campaign is to hear what Arab bloggers have to say about the challenges facing women today. We would like to hear more about women’s success stories in Arab countries and the challenges they faced and the outcomes of their experiences. We want to know what Laila aspires for in her dreams; who she wants to be and where she envisions herself in the future. We encourage people to express their opinions and observations openly and without restraint. Kolena Laila does not endorse any particular cultural values. Instead, we aim to assess, and perhaps question, some of our motives and through that, modify our behavior with an eye towards self improvement.

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Kolena Laila is a virtual initiative on the blogsphere that calls to review values and prevalent ideas related to females, and how society enacts them with no consideration of their impact on women themselves. The call here is not to propagate a certain value or culture, but it is rather a call to criticize and review our own daily behavior, with a true desire to change and purify our attitudes in life. Therefore, participation is open and welcoming each and everyone, from Egypt and Arab countries, men and women, bloggers and simple citizens whom we will voice and share their experience on the internet.

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Kolena Laila team appologizes for the delay experienced to start this year's events. That is due to our engagment in working on expanding the idea in partnership with other Arab countries in the region.

Wait for us within days to announce this year's events..

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