Birth: NULL/NULL/1903 Death:NULL/NULL/1992
Born in Jerusalem in 1903; attended the Sisters of Zion School; organized a conference for Palestinian women in Jerusalem in 1929 with the aim to organize the women’s movement in Palestine, which was attended by some 300 women; played a major role in forming the first Palestinian women’s committees that same year (which were very active during the 1936 general strike); was among the initiators of an Arab women’s conference that convened in Cairo in 1938 to publicize the pro-Zionist policies of the British Mandate in Palestine; established the Jerusalem-based Palestinian chapter of the Arab Women’s Union at the end of the conference; became Director of the Union, through the activities of which she helped establishing cultural, social and sports clubs for women, a maternity and baby clinic, the Al-Doha School for underprivileged girls, and a home for needy women; also initiated an emergency hospital (at today’s Augusta Victoria Hospital) and worked in the children’s ward; was a PNC member; was deported in 1968 by Israel for her political activities but allowed to return at the intervention of international bodies; died in 1992.
