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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000072/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Lamis was born in Jerusalem in 1943. She attended the American University of Beirut, graduating in 1965. She worked as a teacher in the West Bank and East Bank of Jordan before 1967. Then she resigned to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was the first married Jordanian woman to be posted abroad. After leaving the Ministry, she worked with international and local development organizations and as a freelance consultant, specializing in gender issues. Throughout her life she has been involved in voluntary work, charitable activities and civic engagement. She is a member of the University Women’s Club (Nadi El Jameyat) and was involved in studying reforms of the personal status laws in the 1980s. She co-founded the Human Forum for Women's Rights. She was a member of the 2009 committee formed by the government to study the women’s quota in parliament. ( 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: 05 May 2014
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- Duration: 2 hours, 53 minutes and 54 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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