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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000074/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Fahima Charafeddin was born to a wealthy family in south Lebanon during the late 1940s and completed her undergraduate education in Beirut and in South Lebanon at the Lebanese University, majoring in philosophy. She worked as a primary school teacher for 10 years before working as an educational advisor. She completed her PhD in Paris, studying culture and ideologies in the Arab World, and subsequently became a researcher and then was promoted to Director of the Arab Development Institute, working at the Institute for 11 years and acting as Editor-in-Chief of "Arab Thought", a journal published by the Institute. She taught at the Lebanese University for many years, and published numerous articles and books on the women's movement in Lebanon, studies about women in armed conflict, inter-sect marriages and how they affect Lebanese women, and displacement of women during Lebanese conflicts. Fahima fled south Lebanon with her children during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and in 1988 moved to Tripoli with her family. She was involved in the cultural movement in Lebanon before and during the war, as a member of the Cultural Council of South Lebanon. She did not become involved with women's organizations and issues until she saw the suffering and displacement of women during the conflict. She was the founder and, at the time of the interview, president of the Committee for the Follow-up on Women’s Issues, formed in 1996 as a women's NGO dealing with Lebanese women's legal, economic, political, and social issues in order to empower them as well as working on education and generating data about women. She is concerned with the Personal Status Laws in Lebanon that leave law in the hands of powerful religious sects that do not give women human rights within marriage and divorce. Fahima advocates for equality, calling for systematic cultural change. ( 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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- Fāṭimah Sharaf al-Dīn is also transliterated as Fahima Charafeddin
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- Interview conducted on: 31 October 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes
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- Language of interview: Arabic
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- Audio transcription and translation by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan, info@captivatearabia.com
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- آسيا -- لبنان -- بيروت -- بيروت
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
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- VIAF (name authority) : Sharaf al-Dīn, Fāṭimah : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/71690630
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2013 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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