Birth: NULL/NULL/1916 Death:NULL/NULL/1994
Born in Jerusalem in 1916; cousin of Abdel Qader Al-Husseini; was involved with the student unions in the 1930s; took courses in social work and worked as a educator; was also active in the Women’s Solidarity Society; became coordinator of the Arab Women’s Union in the 1940s; established an orphanage for victims of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 in Dar Husseini, the home her grandfather had built in Jerusalem; renamed the building into Dar At-Tifl Al-Arabi (House of Arab Children); dedicated her life to orphans until her death, diligently working to provide them with an education and help them find homes or jobs; also created a school for girls at Dar Al-Tifl and served as its Pres.; it later included a Women’s College affiliated (Faculty of Arts) with Al-Quds University (after her death the college was named Hind Al-Husseini College); was a member of the PNC; served as Board of Trustees member of various Palestinian women’s organizations; received the Jordan Globe Medallion for social work in 1983 and the Jordan Globe Medallion for education in 1985; also was awarded the First Degree Medallion by the German government in 1989; died on 13 Sept. 1994.
