By Marcelle
Mansour
The Australian Arabic Cultural Centre/ Boutros
Indari forum celebrated the International Women's Day on 9th of March
2015 and recognized the achievements of ten women from various Middle Eastern
backgrounds. Congratulations to all the Recipients: Dr. Rosemary Suliman, Dr.
Iman Sharobeem, Ms.Mary Missy, Ms.Randa Kattan, Ms. Maha Abdo, Dr. Rosemary
Suliman, Dr. Nejmeh Habib, Hajjeh Fatima Bazzi, Dr. Boushra Obeidi, Ms. Najah
El-Bahri and Ms. Vivien Doueihy. In attendance of Clr Brian Robson, the Mayor
of Canterbury and Mr Joseph Rizk and wife, the
Managing Director and CEO of Arab Bank Australia who sponsored the event.
Speeches were made by the Mayor Clr Brian Robson who focused on Australian
immigrant women and their achievements. Mr George Hasham – who is an expert in
the field of education - addressed various issues facing women in general and
the Australian Arabic women in particular, wishing them more progressive work. Dr
Emil Chediac and Mrs Chadia Hajjar performed the MC. The evening was
highlighted by music, songs and poetry reading. Performance of songs by Marcel
Khalifeh :” Oummi” , and Rita's for Kazem Al-Saher singing Nizar Kabbani and
Raybaniat. Mr Sayed Mihkael, Poet and Editor in Chief of Alanwar newspaper
recited his own magnificent poem, specially written for this event to recognize
women’s power. Marcelle Mansour (the writer of these words read her own written
poem, titled "greeting", congratulating and celebrating the strength
of Australian Arabic Immigrant women. Nadine Chaar, presenter of Sawt El Farah
Arabic radio, read extracts of poetry by Houda Al- Nemaani. The recognition awards
were delivered by the Mayor Clr Brian Robson, Mr Joseph Rizk, Dr. Mustapha
Alameddin and Mr George Dayoub. The event was successful and enjoyable.
Congrats to all the recipients, the organisers, the participants, the
supporters and the audience.
Great covering for the occasion. Well done Marcelle
ReplyDeleteNejmeh Habsib
Thank you Nejmeh for your comment. I believe it is important to encourage and support the Australian Arabic immigrant women in general regardless to their ethnic origin or religion, in their small and big acts. Not to forget my substantial Arabic literary competition that won the An-Nahar competition prize in the bicentenary 1988, which was titled (The struggle of the Australian Arabic Immigrant Women in Australia) and was published in the same newspaper on weekly basis which was the source of literature and journalism before the internet . I was the first in the Australian Arabic Community at that time to bring up the issue of women for its importance. I am really happy nowadays to see various faces of successful immigrant women in Sydney. I also wrote and recited my own poem that dedicated to all of you women as a gift on the occasion. This is the link just in case you like to read and to comment on it: http://al-ghorba15.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/blog-post_9.html Thank you once again.
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