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245 00 |a Interview with Asma Khader |h [electronic resource] |y English.
260        |c 2014.
490        |a Middle East Women's Activism.
500        |a 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.
500        |a Interview conducted on: 20 May 2014
500        |a Duration: 1 hour, 34 minutes and 34 seconds
500        |a Language of Interview: English
500        |a Audio transcription and translation by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan, info@captivatearabia.com
500        |a آسيا -- الأردن -- عَمّان -- عَمّان
500        |a VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
500        |a VIAF (name authority) : Khader, Asma : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/288214576
506        |a © 2014 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
520 3    |a Asma was born in 1952 in the West Bank but grew up in Amman. Her father had fled to the West Bank from Yaffa during the 1948 war and then was forced to move to Amman to find work as a translator. Her mother was a home maker and then later became a shop keeper. After 1967, Asma became involved in the General Union of Palestinian Women and the General Union of Palestinian Students. Asma studied law at Damascus University and, after graduating, became a lawyer in Jordan. She has specialized in issues of human rights, women’s rights and public freedoms. In the Bar Association, she joined the Human Rights and Public Freedoms Committee and was elected to the Women’s Committee of the Arab Lawyers’ Union, through which she worked on legal reforms for women’s rights. She joined the Jordanian Women's Union and became president in 1993, helping to re-institutionalise the union’s work after a long period of closure. She has also been a member of Amnesty International. As a lawyer and an activist, she has advocated for legal reforms concerning women’s rights, children’s rights and combating violence against women. In 1998, she established Mizan Law Group for Human Rights and the Sisterhood is Global Institute. She has also been appointed to several official positions, amongst them, member of the Royal Commission for Drafting the National Charter (1990), minister of state (2003-2005) and Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) (2007-2014) At the time of the interview, Asma was serving on the Independent Electoral Commission. She has received several awards in recognition of her service.
533        |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c University of Warwick, |d 2020. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software.
650    7 |a Nakba. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a يوم النكبة‎. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a General Union of Palestinian Students. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a الإتحاد العام لطلبة فلسطين‎. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Palestine Liberation Organization. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.
650    7 |a منطمة التحرير الفلسطينية‏. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Black September (Organization). |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad.
650    7 |a منظمة ايلول الاسود‏. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Palestinian fedayeen. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a فدائيون فلسطينيون. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn.
650    7 |a جبهة الشعبية الديمقراطية للتحرير فلسطين. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Arab Lawyers Union. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Ittiḥād al-Muḥāmīn al-ʿArab.
650    7 |a اتحاد المحامين العرب. |2 EGAXA
650    7 |a Jordan Women's Union. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a إتحاد المرأة الأردنية. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Jordan. Protection from Domestic Violence Act. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Jordan. Children Rights Act. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Jordan. Equality and Equal Opportunites Act. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Mizan, Law group for Human Rights. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a مجموعة القانون من أجل حقوق الإنسان (ميزان). |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Sisterhood Is Global Institute.
650    0 |a Munaẓẓamah al-ʻArabīyah li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān fī al-Urdun.
650    7 |a منظمة العربية لحقوق الانسان في الأردن. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Jordanian National Commission for Women. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a اللجنة الوطنية الأردنية لشؤون المرأة. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Passport Law. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Jordan. National Charter (1991). |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Jordan.‏ ‎Mīthāq al-Waṭanī al-Urdunī (1991).
650    7 |a الأردن. ميثاق الوطني الأردني (1991). |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a General Union of Palestinian Women. |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Ittihad al-'Amm li-al-Mar'ah al-Filastiniyyah. |2 J9U
650    7 |a الاتحاد العام للمراة الفلسطينية. |2 WKP
650    7 |a Battle of Samu (Es Samu, Palestine : 1966). |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a معركة السموع (السموع ، دولة فلسطين ، 1966). |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a פעולת סמוע (א-סמוע, מדינה פלסטינית, 1966). |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a Palestinian cause. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Palestinian Arabs -- Civil rights.
650        |a Jordan. Independent Electoral Commission.
650    7 |a الأردن. الهيئة المستقلة للانتخاب. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Human rights.
650    0 |a Women's rights.
650    0 |a Children's rights.
650    7 |a Violence against women. |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Women -- Violence against.
650    0 |a Law reform.
650    0 |a Amnesty International.
650    7 |a Bar Association (Jordan). |2 UW-MEWA
650    0 |a Niqābat al-Muḥāmīn (Jordan).
650    7 |a نقابة المحامين (الأردن). |2 UW-MEWA
650    7 |a نقابة المحامين الأردنيين. |2 UW-MEWA
720 1    |a Khader, Asma. |4 ive
720 1    |a Pratt, Nicola Christine. |4 ctb
752        |a Jordan |b Amman Governorate |d Amman.
830    0 |a SOAS Digital Collections.
830    0 |a Middle East Women’s Activism.
830    0 |a Jordan Collection at SOAS, University of London.
852        |a GBR |b SDC |c Middle East Women’s Activism
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