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Our Crafts, Our Identity

The campaign aims to empower the marginalized handicrafts workers in Lebanon to participate in policy reform to better address their rights, needs, and concerns, and enhance their social protection. The project is a step toward understanding the legal context these workers operate, to give them a voice, protect their craft, and improve their economic standing.

Campaign Objectives

  • Protect the intangible cultural heritage in Lebanon and between MENA while improving Civic and community engagement
  • Ensure Inclusive policies that protect marginalized handicrafts workers
We advocate for the promotion of public spaces, accessible to all, which provide a place for those sharing Lebanon’s cities to come together regardless of their personal and social backgrounds. We believe that providing equal access to neutral public spaces fosters unity and encourages positive dialogue between different communities within Lebanese society.

Campaign Highlights

2018
Launch the studies conducted by NAHNOO on the crafts sector

Nov 2021
Round table discussion of the law draft with the relevant stakeholders

Nov 2021
Develop a law to protect the crafts sector in Lebanon with the relevant stakeholders

June 2021
Conduct cultural and learning exchange trip to Jordan

March 2022
Official submission of the law to the Lebanese Parliament

March 2022
Launching of the campaign

April 2022
Public discussion on the proposed law to organize and develop the crafts sector in Lebanon

April 2022
NAHNOO started a series of public events in Beirut and Beqaa

June 2022
NAHNOO organized a public discussion events in South, Chouf, and North

June 2022
NAHNOO started crochet workshops at RestArt in Bourj Hammoud

June 2022
NAHNOO organized two contests under the scope of craftsmanship competitions (Leather work and carpentry)

May-June 2022
NAHNOO launched series of awareness short films about 10 crafts around Lebanon

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

STUDIES

Articulating The Economic Value of The Crafts-Based Industry in Lebanon

This report is prepared by RPS MENA, who were engaged by NAHNOO Organization to conduct an economic study regarding the “articulating the economic value of the crafts-based industry in Lebanon” project, in the context of NAHNOO’s work to promote and protect the crafts and craftsmanship in Lebanon within its Cultural Heritage program in Lebanon.

22/08/2022

An expanded policy paper for the development of the crafts sector

A political paper prepared by King Hamadeh and Dr. Ali Murad, a project with Mina America with the aim of drawing a road map for the country’s development of Lebanese crafts

06/02/2022

Lebanese Craftsmanship insights for policymaking

A mapping of 51 artisans Bourj Hammoud, looking at the challenges they face and the opportunities that exist for developing intangible cultural heritage in the area.

02/06/2021

MAPS

Craftsmanship in Bourj Hammoud

In order to begin understanding the challenges that artisans face and potential entryways to support their work, NAHNOO led a participatory mapping and research in Bourj Hammoud, a neighborhood on the edges of administrative Beirut.

31/12/2021

Crafts Made in Bourj Hammoud

This retrospective draws an expressive and thoughtful picture of craftsmen in Bourj Hammoud, and initiates a cultural debate that rethinks the essence of crafts and their social foundations.

27/09/2021

POLICY BRIEFS

An expanded policy paper for the development of the crafts sector

A political paper prepared by King Hamadeh and Dr. Ali Murad, a project with Mina America with the aim of drawing a road map for the country’s development of Lebanese crafts

06/02/2022

Lebanese Craftsmanship insights for policymaking

A mapping of 51 artisans Bourj Hammoud, looking at the challenges they face and the opportunities that exist for developing intangible cultural heritage in the area.

02/06/2021

RELATED MEDIA

Decentralization and Municipalities: Bridging the Gap between Rhetoric and Action

The term “decentralization” pervades Lebanese politics, echoing through speeches, slogans, and the work programs of various parties. Despite its omnipresence, its true and immediate significance, particularly in the context of municipal work, is often overlooked.   The past decade has ushered in tumultuous times for Lebanon, thrusting municipalities into the forefront with a weighty burden. […]

01/10/2023

Horsh Beirut Competition Results

Nahnoo invites you, students and professionals (architects, landscape and urban designers, planners and other related environmental and urban design disciplines) to submit proposals for research, design and planning projects to unlock the potential of Horsh Beirut as a shared inclusive public space that will generate a sustainable and pedestrian friendly neighborhood.

02/01/2022

Nahnoo primée par la Fondation Ghazal et la Fondation de France

L’ONG Nahnoo, qui milite depuis 2009 pour la préservation des espaces publics et culturels au Liban, vient de remporter le prix annuel de la Fondation Ghazal pour l’éducation, la recherche et la paix au Liban.

18/12/2021

Endangered nature reserves, pollution and private violations: Lebanon’s highly neglected seaside

Nahnoo is part of The Coast for All, a coalition which launched a campaign last month aiming to preserve and restore the public coast of Lebanon. The campaign has launched a petition to request an amendment to Law 64/2017 to “restrict the right to occupy marine public property to the Lebanese state only,” and to limit encroachments on public properties.

09/12/2021

Sea rights at naught

Sally Abou AlJoud https://nowlebanon.com/sea-rights-at-naught/ When Fifi Kallab, an environmental science professor, returned to Lebanon in 1980, six  Mediterranean monk seals thrived in Amchit’s waters. In 1982, two of them were hunted down. Being one of the world’s most at-risk marine mammals, with fewer than 700 left worldwide, the species is on the International Union for Conservation of […]

25/11/2021

Horsh Beirut Competition

Nahnoo invited students and professionals to submit proposals for research, design and planning projects to unlock the potential of Horsh Beirut as a shared inclusive public space.

06/11/2016

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