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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000049/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Haifa was born in Palestine in 1931 and grew up in Nablus. Her father died when she was 4 years old. She attended the Women’s Training College in Jerusalem, graduating in 1948. After that she began working as a teacher in the West Bank. She married a Jordanian physician who was the health minister from 1970 until 1977. He passed away in a helicopter crash, which left her to raise her 6 children alone. She began her voluntary work after getting married, encouraged by her late husband. In 1971, she founded the White Beds Society and the Golden Age Home to care for elderly people. Over the years, Haifa has won many prizes for her voluntary work. She also chairs the Jordan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Society, which works with psychiatric and addiction cases, was a co-founder and president of the General Federation of Jordanian Women (from 1980) and a member of the Amman municipal council. She finds it increasingly difficulty to get funding from the government for her societies and believes that government should play a part in helping civil society. ( 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: 10 May 2014
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- Duration: 43 minutes and 15 seconds
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- Language of Interview: English
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- 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:
- © 2014 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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