Great and the good gather to celebrate Libyan women | Libya Herald

By Umar Khan.

Tripoli, 25 June:

The event was held to celebrate the role of  women in Libyan society

More than 350 female candidates for the National Conference elections gathered in Tripoli this afternoon for an event to honour the role of women during the revolution.

The event, entitled “My Voice for Her”, was also attended by Prime Minister Abdurrahman El-Kib, NTC Deputy Chairman Salim Ganaiyen, UN envoy to Libya Ian Martin and Minister of Health Fatima Hamroush amongst others. More than 500 guests were present in total.

As part of the occasion, a video compilation of numerous influential Libyan women from years gone by was played to thunderous applause from the audience.

Speaking to a packed hall, the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) head, Nuri Abbar, emphasised the importance of women in nation building, highlighting the fact that 45 per cent of registered voters in Libya are now female. 

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Opinion: Women’s role in the Libyan uprising | Libya Herald

Nafissa Assed

Nafissa Assed has written for numerous blogs and on-line publications. She is a former Libyan exile who was born and brought up in Morocco. Her father returned in 1990 but was murdered by the Qaddafi regime in Libya. After his death she lived with her grandfather, Mohamed Othman Assed, who was prime minister of Libya from 17 October 1960 to 19 March 1963. In 2010, she moved to Libya full-time, hoping to use her media skills for the cultural healing and rebuilding of my society.

After the Libyan revolution started, she wrote anonymously from Tripoli on what was going on inside the country.

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Women’s role in the Libyan uprising 

 By Nafissa Assed

 

     The world was plainly stunned by Libya’s uprising he-roes. But it high time we fêted Libya’s uprising she-roes!

The success of the Libyan Revolution has been usually portrayed by images and videos of Libyan men, typically revolutionaries firing their Kalashnikovs on different frontlines. But one group has been lost in the reshuffling: women.

We should not forget the central role women played in the Libyan uprising and their vital contribution for its success. Although, women could not be warriors in the struggle to overthrow Gaddafi and finish his regime, the fight to oust him was made mutually by men and women but in different ways.

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Post-Revolution, Libyan Women Seek Expanded Roles : NPR

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In Tripoli, Libya, women celebrate the revolution against Moammar Gadhafi's regime and call for a strengthening of women's rights, Sept. 2. After playing large but largely unsung roles during the uprising, women are now seeking a greater political role.

October 4, 2011
 

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. There was even a rock band that could use some practice.

It was a lot like charity bazaars in towns across the U.S., with a couple of notable exceptions: Most of the women wore headscarves, and among the more popular items for sale were hand-knitted versions of the Libyan flag.

The women running this fundraiser are revolutionaries, and they played a large but often unsung role in the uprising that toppled Moammar Gadhafi back in August. Now, they want a larger role in the new government and political system under construction in Libya.

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