The Winter 2014 issue of Diversity in the Workplace Guide is now in its twelfth issue, headlined by an editorial by colleague Mohamed Lotfi titled “Blind People and the Right to Integration in the Labor Market: Between stereotypes and opportunities for decision and choice”. The issue opened with the topic of visual impairment, presenting the experience of the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, which adopted a diversity policy since its inception and provided job opportunities for people with disabilities, and explained in detail about total and partial visual impairment, and presented successful experiences of people with disabilities working and excelling in the media field, including Nasser Ballout, Sami Jalloul and Nicole Toameh, as well as the engineering modifications required to facilitate the movement of blind people in the workplace and the myths and realities associated with blind people.

This issue of the guide was prepared and edited by: Imadeddine Raef, with Rudayna Baalbaki contributing to the preparation and interviews, along with Nada Ozeir, and Doha Yahfoufi. The guide was supervised by Sylvana Lakkis and art directed by Fouad Mokdad.