Voices of Arabic-Speaking Women: Migration Experiences and Stories
This website aims to provide information about the impact of COVID-19 on Gender-Based Violence for Arab-speaking Women in the Halton Region
Assessment
Purpose and objective of the research: The purpose of this study is to document the stories of Arabic-speaking women in the Halton region, as well as experiences of immigration and community. Our aim is to document Arabic-speaking women’s lived experiences as they navigate their day-to-day life across the various spaces and situations. The participants will be asked questions on their experiences at home, in educational spaces, at work, at places of worship, in the street, at hospitals and accessing various services. We also aim to understand the impact of COVID-19 on accessing such services, and how certain challenges have shifted throughout the pandemic. This information can be used to inform the development of programs and policy recommendations to address the various challenges facing Arabic-speaking women in Canada.
Procedures: This anonymous survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. We will also be asking some general demographic questions so that we can better understand the participants' background. Rest assured that none of this information will allow anyone to identify you.
Potential Risks: There is minimal risk in participating in this research study. Participants may experience emotional discomfort when recalling certain experiences. Before participating we encourage participants to ensure that they are comfortable with answering questions regarding their experiences. You are also free to answer only those questions that you feel comfortable with and to leave others unanswered.
Potential Benefit: This study is the first to scan Arabic-speaking women experiences and challenges in the Halton Region within a COVID-19 context. The study shall help us understand those unique experiences, and how certain challenges shifted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of this research study can help guide the development of social programs, grassroot initiatives, policies and improve access to services. Findings may also be published in an academic journal and/or presented at academic conferences to further educate service providers, researchers and policy creators.
Honoring Participation: To acknowledge participants' investment in this project, the research team will be publishing the findings of this research along with infographics to communicate the project’s findings to all interested parties. To learn more about this project, or to access the summary and findings please visit our research website: noonstory.ca
Anonymity: Participation in this research study is anonymous, no one will be able to discern the identity of the participants based on their data. We do not ask you to provide any personally identifying information, and we ask that you do not include any such information in any of your open-ended responses. If you do include any information that we feel may identify you (city names, workplaces, etc), we will remove it prior to analyzing and presenting the data to ensure your anonymity. Research findings may be presented at academic conferences, shared at community events, published in academic journals, and communicated through infographics or other similar knowledge mobilization methods.
Please note that the questionnaire responses are collected through Survey Monkey and stored in Canadian facilities. Rest assured that your IP address will not be collected, again ensuring your identity remains anonymous. Please see the following for more information on Survey Monkey’s Privacy Policy.
Storage of data: all data will be securely stored at Women for Justice Foundation (WJF) and Al-Qazzaz Foundation for Education and Development (QED). Research data will be protected during data collection and analysis via the institution’s virtual Google Drive. Data will be securely stored for five years following the publication and dissemination of findings after which it will be destroyed.
Findings
Traditional animation (also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation) was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century.The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings that are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. The animators' drawings are traced or photocopied onto transparent acetate sheets called cels, which are filled in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the side opposite the line drawings. The completed character cels are photographed one-by-one against a painted background by a rostrum camera onto motion picture film . The traditional cel animation process became obsolete by the beginning of the 21st century. Today, animators' drawings and the backgrounds are either scanned into or drawn directly into a computer system Various software programs are used to color the drawings and simulate camera movement and effects.The final animated piece is output to one of several delivery media, including traditional 35 mm film and newer media such as digital video. The "look" of traditional cel animation is still preserved, and the character animators' work has remained essentially the same over the past 70 years. Some animation producers have used the term "tradigital" to describe cel animation which makes extensive use of computer technology. Examples of traditionally animated feature films include Pinocchio (United States, 1940), Animal Farm (United Kingdom, 1954), and Akira (Japan, 1988). Traditional animated films which were produced with the aid of computer technology include The Lion King (US, 1994) Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Japan, 2001), and Les Triplettes de Belleville (France, 2003).In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally. "Scrolling", as such, does not change the layout of the text or pictures, but moves (pans or tilts) the user's view across what is apparently a larger image that is not wholly seen. A common television and movie special effect is to scroll credits, while leaving the background stationary. Scrolling may take place completely without user intervention (as in film credits) or, on an interactive device, be triggered by touchscreen or computer mouse motion or a keypress and continue without further intervention until a further user action, or be entirely controlled by input devices. Scrolling may take place in discrete increments (perhaps one or a few lines of text at a time), or continuously (smooth scrolling). Frame rate is the speed at which an entire image is redisplayed. It is related to scrolling in that changes to text and image position can only happen as often as the image can be redisplayed. When frame rate is a limiting factor, one smooth scrolling technique is to blur images during movement that would otherwise appear to "jump". The term scrolling is also used for a type of misbehavior in an online chat room whereby one person forces the screens of others in a chat to scroll by inserting much noise or special control characters
The logo's story
Once upon a time, a group of passionate activists came together to create a logo that would represent their vision for a brighter future, free from violence against women and girls. They wanted to design a logo that would not only be visually striking, but also carry a powerful message.
After much brainstorming and discussion, they decided to create a participatory art logo that could be read from right to left or left to right, with the same pronunciation but different meanings. They chose to incorporate the word "Noon" into the design, which in English means midday, but in Arabic is a connected pronoun used to denote the plural of females.
To represent their goal of a brighter future, they chose the color orange as a unifying theme running through all of their global initiatives. The color orange represents hope, optimism, and a brighter tomorrow, free from violence against women and girls.
And so, the logo was born. A beautiful, participatory art piece that can be read in two languages, representing the fight against violence towards women and girls. Every time someone sees the logo, they are reminded of the need to take action towards a brighter future, free from violence and oppression.
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