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- Country of residence: Portugal
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Born in 1940 in Kufr Ne’meh, near Ramallah; became a grassroots leader, using her house as a center for rehabilitation and teaching, sewing, knitting, embroidery and cooking for local village women; overcame illiteracy by convincing an NGO to open up adult-literacy classes in her village in 1981; was also politically active, for which she was detained by Israeli forces in 1981 and again in 1993; was always active in promoting girls’ education and raised funds to develop her village’s girls school in 1986; 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.
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