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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000057/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Hala was born in Kuwait in 1971. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a sales manager for a dairy company. She moved to Jordan with her family in 1981 as her father's job moved there. She studied law at the Amman National University. While there she was active in the movie and theater club. She also supported Fatah for a time at university, and was generally involved in the Palestinian cause. After, she attempted to create a student union for all Jordanian students but this was prevented. She is a member of the Lawyers' Association. At the time of the interview, Hala was working with the Jordanian Women's Union, working on amending the Personal Status Law. She has also continued her pro-Palestine activities, joining the Right to Return Coalition and opposing the normalisation of relations with Israel. At the time of the Arab Spring, she participated in demonstrations in Jordan and in New York while at Columbia University on a grant from BellNet. She remains positive about the various Arab revolutions producing positive outcomes for women and women's rights. At the time of the interview, she was finishing her PhD thesis and looking into post-doctorate and academic work. ( 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.
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- Interview conducted on: 13 May 2014
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- Duration: 52 minutes and 58 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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