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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000089/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Olfat Mahmoud was born in Burj Al-Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon in 1960. Her parents are both Palestinian. Her father worked as an accountant for a small car company and her mother worked as an embroiderer. After 1967, Olfat became involved in the Palestinian students' union and was trained in first aid. After high school, Olfat attended nursing college and worked as a nurse during the 1982 Israeli invasion. Then she completed a course in clinical instruction in London and a course in community nursing in Australia. She worked as a nurse during the Camp Wars, which she found to be a terrible experience so she left nursing. Olfat felt more attention needed to be given to women's health issues inside the Palestinian refugee camps and she founded the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organization after 1982. She completed a diploma in women's studies in 2010. At the time of the interview, Olfat was teaching courses in psychology and pursuing her PhD at the Beirut Arab University. ( 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: 22 October 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour, 47 minutes, and 29 seconds
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- Language of interview: English
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- Audio transcription by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan , info@captivatearabia.com.
- General Note:
- 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) : Mahmoud, Olfat, 1960- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/313304681
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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