The Knowledge Workshop (KW) came to be in August 2015, founded and co-managed by two feminists, Sara Abu Ghazal and Deema Kaedbey. And in 2020-21, with Sara leaving, KW underwent a major change.

Read Deema’s announcement here: KW Announcement

When we first launched KW, this is how we introduced ourselves on this website:
KW is an ongoing workshop for (re)searching and gathering women’s stories, for creating and sharing feminist resources through engaging women and their struggles within their communities in Lebanon.

We at the KW team have merged all our past experiences in collective grassroots organizing and working within more institutionalized forms of activism, in activist writing and in scholarly research, and our experiences working in different artistic and media projects, in order to create this feminist workshop.

The team behind KW found each other in activist spaces, through our passion for stories and histories of women no one was paying attention to, in order to present them in new and old forms. The dream of KW started in 2010 and it has been growing with us ever since. The Knowledge Workshop was officially born in 2015 and launched in 2016 in order to undertake the necessary work of integrating community organizing with re-searching, storytelling, teaching and learning. The KW has three primary tracks: the Feminist Library, the Storytellers Project, and the Feminist School.

The Knowledge Workshop builds on the work of Sawt al Niswa, the feminist collective and webspace. It is largely because of Sawt al Niswa, and the women who shaped it, that KW has become possible.