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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Born in Nazareth; graduate of the Teachers’ Training College of Jerusalem. She taught at the Islamic School of Nazareth in 1933. During the Nakba years, she volunteered to provide first aid to the wounded from the salvation army. She fled to Ein Alhelwa in Beirut and travelled to Baghdad where she obtained a BA in English literature. She then obtained an MA and a Ph.D. from the American University of Beirut.
She participated in the creation of the Women’s Union in Holy Jerusalem after 1964. She joined Wolf Women International League for Peace and Freedom and succeeded in securing Palestine a permanent official membership in the organization in 1989.
She published many political and academic articles and research and publish in 1975 a book on female prisoners in the occupation cells. She published a book on Libyan women that was translated into five languages
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