Professor Nadje Al-Ali and Alumna Sahar Mandour spoke in a panel at The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center مركز الموارد الجندرية والجنسانية in Beirut, Lebanon. The panel was titled- Producing Feminist Knowledge: Queering the Challenges and Strategies in the Middle East and North Africa
This event titled “Queer Perspectives on Law 3: Queering the International/Internationalising the Queer” was held at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London on 28 January 2016. In 2009 the US Congress passed legislation which expanded federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by the victim’s gender, sexual orientation or gender identity. While this was heralded by many as a victory for LGBT rights, some queer