When: Tuesday, December 10, 6–8 PM

Where: LAU NY, 211 E. 46th Street, NY, NY 10017

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LAU NY is hosting in partnership with Friends of Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health (LebMash) an OutRight event bringing together LGBTIQ activists from the MENA region for a night to discuss challenges facing the community throughout the region, as well as the current state of activism.

SPEAKERS:

• Bahrain: Nazeeha Saeed is an award winning Bahraini journalist, a leading human rights defender and women’s rights advocate.

• Syria: Fadi Saleh lectures on gender and sexuality studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

• Lebanon:

  • Maya El Helou is a feminist researcher, a comic artist and the author of the page “Kharabish Nasawiya”.

  • Georges Azzi is the co-founder of Helem, a non-profit working on improving the legal and social status of LGBT people.