arcVision Prize 2015 – Women and Architecture – VERA BABOUN
Channel: Amor Vacui
Date: 03/06/2015

arcVision Prize 2015 – Women and Architecture – VERA BABOUN
i.lab Italcementi Group, Bergamo (Italy) – March, 5/6 2015

Mrs. Vera Baboun, member of the Jury of arcVision Prize, born in October 6th, 1964, mother of five children and wife of martyr Hanna Ibrahim Baboun (2007), was elected President of the Bethlehem Municipal Council in October 2012, to be the first woman to occupy the post of Mayor of Bethlehem since its inception. She holds a master degree in American Ethnic Literature, and is a candidate for a doctorate degree in the same faculty. Prior to her election, Mayor Baboun worked as a lecturer at Bethlehem University – Department of English Language and Literature for 21 years in addition to lecturing Gender and Development Master Students for 6 years, the Dean of Student Affairs at the university for many years and the General Director for the Greek Catholic School in Beit Sahour. Mayor Baboun is an authorized researcher in the network GRACE for gender research for women’s empowerment in the Middle East through the use of information technology, and member of the board of SHASHAT for Women’s Cinema in Palestine. She has submitted several papers on issues of gender equality in a large number of civil and social organizations both local and international among which recently GRACE published a book that enfolds 27 researches for women from Africa and the Middle East, Mayor Baboun is the Palestinian participating with her research titled: “Scheherazades of Today: Young Palestinian women use film, radio and social networking platforms to speak up and change”.

ArcVision Prize 2015 by Italcementi Group, III edition: http://www.italcementi.it/ITA/Media+Center/News/20150205.htm 

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
Stefano Casciani

THE JURY
Shaikha Al Maskari
Vera Baboun
Daria Bignardi
Odile Decq
Yvonne Farrell
Louisa Hutton
Suhasini Mani Ratnam
Samia Nkrumah
Benedetta Tagliabue
Martha Thorne
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