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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000056/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Muyassar was born in 1947 in Haifa, under the British Mandate of Palestine. After the Nakba, she and her family moved to Jenin. She married at 16 and studied nursing at the Augusta Victoria hospital in Jerusalem. As a result of the 1967 war, she fled to Jordan. She volunteered her time in the Palestinian refugee camps as well as working for UNRWA. In 1998, she received a prize from the UN for her work in fighting poverty and used the money to establish the Families Development Association (an NGO), which provides services and vocational training for low income women, such as the Izdihar project. Muyassar has also been a member of the Jordanian Women’s Union and was elected to the Amman municipal council. In this capacity she helped build a centre for information technology and library services at Wadi Al-Haddadeh, a deprived area of Amman. ( en )
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- 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: 15 May 2014
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- Duration: 57 minutes and 14 seconds
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- Language of Interview: Arabic
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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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