Interview with Lubna Dawany

Material Information

Title:
Interview with Lubna Dawany
Series Title:
Middle East Women's Activism
Alternate Title:
مقابلة مع لبنى دواني
Creator:
Dawany, Lubna ( Interviewee )
دواني ، لبنى ( contributor )
Pratt, Nicola Christine ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
Amman, Jordan
Publication Date:
Language:
English

Notes

Abstract:
Lubna was born in Amman in the early 1960s. Her mother and father were both teachers. After getting married, she studied law at university, graduating in 1993, and then did an MA in transformation management at Buckingham University. Lubna is a lawyer. She began her public work and volunteering at the end of the 1980s, first as an individual initiative to help women around her and later co-founding Mizan Law Group for Human Rights and Sisterhood is Global Institute (SiGi) She also volunteers with the Families Development Association, with their Izdihar project, which aims to help impoverished women become more independent. ( en )
General Note:
Funding : Women's Activism in the Arab World (2013-2016). This project, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, examines the significance of middle-class women's activism to the geo/politics of Arab countries, from national independence until the Arab uprisings. It was based on over 100 personal narratives of women activists of different generations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
General Note:
Interview conducted on: 06 May 2014
General Note:
Duration: 45 minutes and 9 seconds
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Language of Interview: English
General Note:
Audio transcription and translation by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan, info@captivatearabia.com
General Note:
آسيا -- الأردن -- عَمّان -- عَمّان
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VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457

Record Information

Source Institution:
University of Warwick
Rights Management:
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