Summer workshop

Anamê Gnanguenon

Anamê Gnanguenon has both French and Beninese citizenship and an educational background in history, religion and society. She has worked with the Anti-Racism Movement in Lebanon since 2019, doing community building activities and workshops on migrant rights at the Migrant Community Center. Her work has been focused on strengthening women-led initiatives and encouraging and building spaces for discussions around black feminism. Currently, Aname works as a community advocacy coordinator and maintains direct contact with migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, and does advocacy and media campaigns.

Asser Khattab

Asser Khattab is an essayist who writes about journalism, art, culture, and history. He formerly reported from the Middle East on war, politics, and economy for various international media outlets, including the Washington Post and the Financial Times. Recently, he started a newsletter with New Lines Magazine in which he examines how the media covers the Middle East, and he now works with communication for human rights organisations.

Sarah Khazem

Sarah Khazem is a freelance journalist and creative writer interested in covering migration stories and identity issues using ethnographic tools. Her writings focus on how crises and totalitarian regimes interact with patriarchy to repress women and female journalists in particular. Sarah Khazem tries to practice a type of journalism that intersects with the humanitarian and social fields, including in particular anthropology and literature.

Mikey Muhanna from afikra

Mikey Muhanna is the founder and executive director of afikra | عفكرة, a global movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. Starting from a rooftop in Brooklyn in 2014, Muhanna has grown afikra into a global education & media platform with a community of 100,000 people across 30 chapters globally and has a robust content library of over 500 talks that have been viewed over 500,000 times.

Ibrahim Nehme from The Outpost

Ibrahim Nehme is a creator and curator working on new media. His work is a cross-pollination between journalism, activism and artistic expression, and could be situated as a series of attempts to shift the collective consciousness. In 2012 he founded The Outpost magazine, which became a platform for writers and artists from the Arab world to channel a new voice of resistance and change, and received several awards.

Hoda Barakat

Hoda Barakat is a trainer and facilitator with an interest in community facilitation and collective processes. With a background in history studies, Hoda started her training career with a focus on memory processes in post-conflict societies, and more recently taught and coached community organising approaches and campaigns.  She is active within “Kabcoob” a feminist facilitation cooperative.

Angela Saade from Switch Perspective

Angela Saade is a popular education trainer and co-founder of JIBAL, a Lebanese organisation working on social and environmental justice. She has organised workshops and trainings on a wide range of topics in Lebanon, France and elsewhere. She is one of the co-founders of Switch Perspective.

Rana Hassan from Switch Perspective

Rana Hassan is a facilitator specialised in community building and urban research. She is currently focusing on supporting cooperatives and horizontal groups, as well as doing movement building. She is a member of the Switch Perspective team.

Jenny Gustafsson from Switch Perspective

Jenny Gustafsson is a journalist/writer and editor who has lived in Lebanon and reported from the region since 2009. In 2010, she co-founded the online magazine Mashallah News. Her work has been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Courrier international and others. She is one of the co-founders of Switch Perspective.

Deadline:

Applications closed on May 5.