Honoring pioneer Lebanese women in commemoration of Greater Lebanon declaration

On the 69th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Greater Lebanon (Lubnan al Kabir), the National Initiative for the Centenary of the Greater Lebanon organized yesterday a ceremony to honor Lebanese women pioneers within the state public departments, Lebanon’s women friends, UN women representatives, women ambassadors in Lebanon and university scientific research women pioneers. The ceremony which is part of the Lebanese Women 2020 program, ‘Lebanon a country of knowledge’, took place at the Parliament House in downtown Beirut under the patronage of House Speaker represented by MP Bahia Hariri. The latter underlined in her allocution that today’s event is an “opportunity to renew confidence in Lebanese women who carried the banner of education for decades of the country’s history, prompting, she added, the creation of the said program. Among the honored women, are, the Special UN Coordinator in Lebanon, Ambassador Siegrid Kag, the Head of the EU Delegation to Lebanon, Ambassador Kristina Lasson, the President of the Special Economic Zone in Tripoli, Raya Hassan, the State Inspector in the Central Inspection Department, Dalal Emile Barmat, the Director of UNIC, Margaret Helu, the President of AUST Hiyam Sakr, Acting Deputy Assistant of Academic Affairs at AUB, Hala Muhtasib, the Director of Political Sciences Institute at USJ, Fadia Kiwan, and the Director General of Cooperatives at the Agriculture Ministry, Gloria Abi Zeid. For the complete list of honored women, kindly visit the following link (http://bit.ly/2bOnRNA). (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, An Nahar, September 2, 2016)