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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000059/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Nadia was born in 1957 in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, on the West Bank. Her parents were born in Palestine and fled to the West Bank during the 1948 war. During the 1967 war, Nadia and her family fled to Amman. Whilst she was a school girl, she signed up for the Zahrat, the Fatah youth section for girls, and participated in training for more than 2 years, until the PLO was forced out of Jordan in 1970-71. After high school, she studied English and, after graduation, became a teacher. Nadia was involved in underground leftist politics as well as believing in the importance of struggling for women’s rights. In 1990, she joined the Jordanian Women's Union and was part of a new generation of women who transformed the agenda of the union to prioritise women’s issues, including violence against women. At the time of the interview, Nadia was the director of the JWU. ( 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.
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- Interview conducted on: 18 May 2014
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- Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes and 51 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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