Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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Was born in Nablus in 1899, being a woman she could not continue her higher education and became a tailor instead; opened her own shop, in which she also trained girls in dress-making; active in a women’s group,founded by Mariam Hashim in 1922, which involved women in social and national issues, incl. participation in the strike of 1936.
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Achievements and Awards
Was participated in founding the Cooperation and Steadfastness Committee, a female branch of resistance against the Zionists.also she was co-founder of a cultural and sports club in Nablus in 1945, Pres. of the Arab Women’s Union in Nablus from 1948.
During the 1948 Nakba, initiated a first-aid committee run by women and opened a maternity home for exiled Palestinians; after the War, established an orphanage for girls; was chief of the team that established the Arab Women’s Union Hospital, followed by a refugee children hospital in 1950, and the An-Nour Institute for Blind Women in 1962. was Chairperson of the Union of Charitable Societies in the Nablus District from 1958-75; attended the first PNC in 1964; was a founding member of the Exec. Committee of the Red Crescent in Amman; died on 23 Oct. 1979.
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