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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000071/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Nimeh was born in Lebanon in 1958, after her father fled there from Jordan following the repression of the Jordanian Nationalist Movement in 1957. Her mother was a nurse. Her family eventually moved to Kuwait, where she stayed until the 1990 invasion by Saddam Hussein. As a result, she moved back to Jordan with her husband and children. After 2000, Nimeh began blogging about politics and women's issues. In particular, as a Jordanian woman married to a foreigner, she was particularly concerned about the impacts on her children and herself of the government’s refusal to allow Jordanian women to pass on their nationality to their children. Around 2010, she began a campaign, "My mother is Jordanian and her nationality is my right". In 2011, with the Arab uprisings occurring, she seized the opportunity to take her online campaign to the streets and organized several demonstrations for the rights of Jordanian women to pass on their nationality. Nimeh passed away in 2015. ( 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: 07 May 2014
- General Note:
- Duration: 2 hours, 34 minutes and 39 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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