Birth: 15/4/1923 Death:13/5/2009
Born in Al-Daraj, Gaza, on 15 April 1923; received her primary education in Gaza and her secondary education at Schmidt‘s Girls College in Jerusalem; was a member of the International Committee for the Red Cross during WWII; studied at the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, graduating with a BA (1949) and an MA; worked as a teacher in Bir As-Saba’; became principal of Al-Zahra Girls’ Secondary School in Gaza from 1949-51, then of the Teachers’ College in Gaza (1951), and the Popular University (Open University) for Women in the Gaza Strip; former member of the Council for Higher Education; supervisor on instruction of social topics for schools in the Gaza Strip and teacher of Palestinian history and geography; member of the Administrative Council, Veterans’ Society in the Gaza Strip, from 1957-67; member of the Palestinian delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1963; since 1964, founding Pres. of the Palestinian Women’s Union in Gaza; PNC member since 1964; member of the Administrative Council of the Red Crescent Society since 1972 and its Executive Secretary since 1973; Board of Directors member of the National Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled in the Gaza Strip; prohibited of traveling by Israeli authorities since 1974 for her political activism; 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. She died on May 13th, 2009.
