Birth: NULL/NULL/1899 Death:NULL/NULL/1992
Born in Lebanon on 15 Feb. 1899 to a Palestinian Christian family; moved to New York as a child; later returned to the Middle East and lived in Palestine, where she married Moghannam E. Moghannam, a leading lawyer and member of the National Defense Party; founding member and Sec.-Gen. of the Palestine Arab Women’s Congress in Jerusalem in Oct. 1929, which was convened in the aftermath of the Al-Buraq disturbances and which has been heralded as the first time that women entered the political arena; was elected member of its Exec. Committee, which was also referred to as Exec, Committee of the (First) Arab Women (or Ladies) Congress or Women’s Executive Committee; became together with Tarab Abdul Hadi the first official representative of a Palestinian women’s delegation to meet with High Commissioner Lord Chancellor in Oct. 1929; spoke at the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock during the Arab Women’s March to holy sites on 15 April 1933, warning of the future ramifications for Palestine if the Arab population was outnumbered by Jewish immigrants; participated in the first Arab Women’s Congress in Cairo, headed by Huda Shaarawi in 1938; established the Arab Women’s Union Society in Ramallah in 1939, through which she engaged in relief and charity activities, incl. sewing and embroidery workshops for women, until she returned to the US in 1980; author of The Arab Woman and the Palestinian Problem (London: 1936, reprinted in 1976); died of heart failure on 11 Aug. 1992 in Virginia, US.
