One recent day in Tripoli, hundreds of people strolled through a charity fundraiser organized by the women in Libya's capital city. Women sold baked goods and handicrafts in rows of stalls. For the kids, there were a moon bounce and face painting.
Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for those in post-conflict countries.
The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek's recent cover story, "The 2011 Global Women's Progress Report", evoke images of two different worlds.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen.
The choice of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as one of three Nobel Peace Prize winners this year is already sparking controversy.
Though the committee did not mention the revolutions that have coursed through the Arab world this year, many Arabs writing in social media saw the inclusion of Ms. Karman as a nod to their efforts and discussed what it would mean for the future of protests there, especially in Yemen.
The Shama Municipal Coordinator of the Coalition of Women in Governance, an NGO, Madam Cynthia Sonlika, has appealed to political parties to let women to contest unopposed in the 21 new constituencies to be created by the Electoral Commission.
"In his dispatch to the State Department in early 2007, Vershbow predicted Park would not be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate, writing, “many, even in the GNP, say that Korea may not be ready yet to elect a female president.” He added that “even if she loses this time, Park will r