In a country where women don’t have equal rights and face massive underrepresentation in the government, An Nahar, the nation’s leading paper with a long history of standing with the Lebanese people, looked to empower women to lead the Lebanese revolution, in order to avoid the violence that marked previous protests.
In a bold move, the paper shocked the country by rewriting the national anthem. A line in the anthem had previously referred to Lebanon as “the birthplace of men” – An Nahar changed it to “the birthplace of women and men”.
The new National Anthem was printed on the cover page of the newspaper, an edition that was entirely dedicated to women for the first time.
