We hope you'll join us for the third and final installment of our Arab Women & Feminist Visions for Equity and Belonging webinar series. This third event will focus on the critical role of Arab women and feminists in the struggle for sustainable development, climate justice, food justice, land rights, and sovereignty in the Arab region. What are the visions, solutions, and aspirations of Arab women and feminists when it comes to advancing belonging and protecting land and life through climate resilience, sustainable food systems, and staying on ancestral lands in resistance to violence, land dispossession, and erasure?
See a recording from our first event here, and our second event here.
Speakers
Muna Luqman is currently the National Coordinator on Inclusion with the Office of the UN Special Envoy-Yemen. She is the founder of Food4Humanity and co-founder of the Women’s Solidarity Network, the largest women’s network in Yemen, and she is a member of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership. She frequently briefs the UN Security Council, members of the US Congress, and the UN Human Rights Council. Climate change and water diplomacy have been a highlight of her advocacy work, particularly on local mediation over natural resources. She has mediated between armed tribes and established water projects that have benefited more than 120,000 families throughout Yemen. Muna received the 8th International Young Women’s Peace Award and is a nonresident Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. She was recently awarded the courage and leadership award by Hillary Clinton and Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
Shereen Talaat is a Feminist Movement leader, activist, economist, and documentary filmmaker dedicated to feminist climate and economic justice. She founded MENA Feminist for Economic, Ecological Justice, and Development (MENAFEM), a regional network advocating for transformative policies that center women’s rights, economic sovereignty, and climate resilience. Her work challenges austerity measures and harmful financial policies imposed by global institutions, emphasizing the intersection of gender, climate, and economic justice. Shereen serves as a board member of The Climate Action Network International board and on the advisory boards of the Green Grants Fund Mena and the WTO’s Director-General, and she was recently elected as a co convener of Women and Gender Constituency MENA WGC of the UNFCCC framework. In 2023 she was recognized as
one of the most influential voices on climate finance.
Léa Yammine is a creative and a researcher. She is the co-director of the Centre for Social Sciences Research & Action (CeSSRA) in Beirut, and has established and led the interpretation of the Centre’s scientific research, programmes, and activities into various formats, from an interdisciplinary perspective. She focuses on overseeing a multidisciplinary team of designers, data analysts, and digital creators to develop innovative ways to visualise and disseminate the Centre’s data, in line with its mission to make knowledge openly accessible. Her main research areas and work revolve around social security and protection, communication, visualisations, civil society and civic space.
