Birth: NULL/NULL/1928 Death:16/8/2013
Born in Nablus in 1928; educated at A’ishiyyeh School in Nablus and later at the Friends’ School in Ramallah; involved in Palestinian women’s activities in the West Bank since 1949; attended the first PNC at which the GUPW was formally established in June 1964; elected Sec.-Gen. of the Arab Women’s Union in Nablus in 1949; long-time leader of the GUPW and its elected President in July 1965; imprisoned by Israel and deported with her daughter Faiha Abdul Hadi, in April 1969 after arranging a sit-in and hunger strike at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, in protest of the Israeli army’s killing of women in Gaza; worked through the Save Jerusalem Committee in Amman; appointed to the PLO Central Council in 1974; re-established GUPW in Lebanon in the mid-1970s; headed the Palestinian delegation to the first UN International Women’s Conference in Mexico City in 1975; elected Pres. of the General Union of Arab Women in 1981; Vice-Pres. of the International Democratic Union of Women from 1981-92; returned to the West Bank in 1993; was awarded the Ibn Rushd Prize by the Berlin-based Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought in 2002; was one of eight Palestinian women nominated for the Noble Peace Prize as part of the Project “1000 Women for the Noble Peace Prize 2005”, died in Amman on August 16th, 2013.
