Marie’s Story - 9

Panels 1-2: According to Lebanese law, women do not have personal civil status records. They are first registered under their fathers’ records, then their husbands’. Moreover, and particularly during that time period, marriages across different religions or even across different sects within the same religion were often fraught with various tensions.

Panel 3: The first electoral law, issued in 1950, discriminated against women and deprived them of their political rights. As such, the first feminist mobilizations were for women’s political rights. The suffragettes’ activism included a door-to-door campaign to collect signatures for a petition, demonstrations, and the organization of cross-regional coordination meetings.