General Information

ARRAWI aims at supporting culture  and literature mainly among the youth. It is a non profit personal based center that works for encouraging the youth to write and express their ideas and to stand facing censorship and silence. As mentioned ARRAWI is a personal initiative founded by the writer Iman Humaydan. Within Arrawi Iman Humaydan organizes creative writing workshops in Lebanon and Europe in collaboration with universities and cultural centers. In each project Humaydan works with different persons based upon the nature of the project. Partners are Pen Lebanon, Cite Des Arts in Paris, Atelier Mondial in Basel, and university Paris 8 in France. Arrawi had different sources of funding. At present ARRAWI is applying for a writer in residence project in Beirut and Paris to be funded by 1001 titles  project in Sharjah.