Mary Turner Lane Award to the best two research on gender and women rights

The Lebanese American University LAU Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) distributed the Mary Turner Lane awards to the two best student papers on women and gender. During the ceremony, LAU President, Dr. Joseph Jabra, applauded the late Mary Turner Lane who has committed herself for over 32 years at the University of North Carolina in the service of women’s issues, rights and gender equality. When the award was first launched, Jabra pointed out, it was aimed at generating awareness on the importance of research in the field of gender and women studies. In honor to all her past accomplishments, Jabra said, her daughter decided to allocate the award to IWSAW. For her part, the Institute’s director, Dr. Lina Abi Rafeh, revealed that she has received 24 research papers which she read and was inspired by the ideas and commitment to issues of gender and the reality of women in the Arab world. To close, Abi Rafeh and Jabra handed the awards to Kaitlyn Smith for her paper on the emigration of women from South East Asia and Mariya Zmiter for her paper ‘Why do they hate us’. (Al Mustaqbal, October 19, 2016)