Suheir Farraj participated in “Radio Intifada this week” which is based in Los Angelos, representing Women Media & Development “TAM” in a live show on the phone, discussing Women’s Rights and national liberation, and an explanation about TAM and its goals and programs. The show lasted approximately for twenty minutes.
2007
Peru – The 4th of December
On the occasion of the day against Violence against women, TAM participated in a big festival in Lima, the capital of Peru. The director of the institution of TAM – Women Media & Development, Mrs. Suheir Farraj participated in a debate during the festival where she demonstrated the situation of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation since they suffer from successive attacks and lack of freedom and all kind of persecution. We must mention here that this festival in organized annually by the cooperation of the union “Jakab” which is a framework that includes the several institutions of the civil society from all over Latin America and its aim is to fight against poverty and to achieve equality and justice. Each participating country contributed to the festival by broadcasting films about the situation in their counties related to violence against women and the measures that must be done to fight against these phenomena. Also, the festival included many exhibitions for women’s traditional handicrafts and art crafts. It also included popular dances and picture galleries. Another activity was the participation of TAM in a picture gallery which was held at a university in the capital Lima. This photo gallery included many photos and pictures made by women demonstrating their dreams and aspirations and among these women the Palestinian women.
November 03-05 In Egypt
Nisrine Al Ama Participated in CREA's Training Workshop in Gender, Sexuality, Community Development and Rights that was held in Ain Soukhna , Egypt from November 03 to 05, 2007. This training was organized in partnership with the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW), Egypt. Through three days of instruction, exercises, films and discussion, a deeper understanding of issues related to gender and sexuality was developed and was linked with community development and rights. The workshop also discussed how these concepts can be incorporated in one's work on community development and rights.
2006
December 2006 in Switzerland
Series of symposiums organized on the situation of Palestinian women under the new Palestinian government on 3rd-10th December 2006 in 3 different cities in Switzerland (Zurich, Bern, Lucerne).
December 2006 in Jordan
Shireen Khamis participated in the Gender in Media international workshop dealing with Gender and Media Advocacy in the Middle East, in Amman, in December 2006; presenting gender in media in Palestine and how to use media for empowerment and awareness.
November 2006 In Spain
A 4-day conferences and workshops meeting in Barcelona, Spain on 16-19th November 2006. The program was the Promotion of Arab women's participation in development process in Mediterranean area to discuss and exchange strategies from Arab organizations to promote women's rights in the difficult current context of Arab societies.
November 2006 in Egypt
A 5-day workshop on "Establishing an Arab Network to observe and change Women’s Image in Media" hold in Cairo, Egypt from 1 - 5 November 2006, part of a series of cooperation between ACT and Heinrich Boll Foundation.
The activity goal was to encourage gender media watch nationally and regionally, create an alternative media vision that is supportive to gender equality in collaboration with media professionals in different domains and to form a network of Arab organizations that work on monitoring women’s image in media.
September 2006 in France
Suheir Farraj was invited to participate at the International Conference and Cultural Workshop on “Dialogue among peoples and cultures” on 13-15 September 2006 in Paris, France.
15-22nd august 2006 in Ramallah
Two girls from Bethlehem represented TAM in the Tawasol summer camp in Aboud village (Ramallah) for voluntary community services, organized by the Palestinian youth union with Save the Children partnership.
February- March 2006 in Bethlehem
Nisrine Lama participated in a Series of courses concerning training for trainers in gender, with the women information resource center (Tawasol) in Bethlehem.
February 2006 Youth Conference in Jordan
In the fourth youth Arab meeting held in February 2006 by the Arab women media center in Amman, Jordan, Nisrine Lama participated as TAM member and talked about the youth problems in Palestine and the lack of media in covering these problems.
2005
2005-2006 Project management workshops in Ramallah
During the year 2005-2006, the german organization of cooperation GTZ
(Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit) implemented a three-session workshop in Rammallah on Project management and capacity building for Palestinian NGOs, Nisrine Lama and Severine Laville follow the entire sessions, dealing with Proposal writing (first phase), Projects Reporting and monitoring (phase II) and Projects Evaluation and peer review including field visits (phase III).
November 2005 in Nablus
3 days of conference were organized in November 2005 in Nablus, Ramallah and Gaza by the French Cultural Centers (French Consulate) dealing with the women place in the Mediterranean Arab societies. Suheir Farraj's lecture and debate was dealing on how to promote gender issues and use media a tool for awareness activities.
November 2005 Hebron
One day of conference about Media and Democracy in the Palestinian society were held in Hebron on November 2005.
Suheir Farraj 's speech was on the situation on Palestinian media and democracy in general, and the control and censorship facing by local journalists in Particular.
Summer 2005 in Bethlehem
Nisrine Lama and Majd Ilaza participated to the students' forum in Bethlehem
for four sessions dealing on Youth leadership workshops.
2004
June 2004 in Jordan The third Arab Women Media conference in Amman with the Arab Women Media Center.
Four days of conference where Suheir Farraj talked on women working in local media in Palestine.
