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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000091/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Samira Salah was born in Tiberias, Palestine in 1944. Her father worked for a British oil refinery in Haifa and her mother was a homemaker. In 1948, Samira and her family fled to Jordan and then to Syria and she grew up in Homs and Damascus. She worked as a teacher in Saudi Arabia for four years. From 1961 she was involved with the Arab Nationalist Movement, which after 1967 became the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) She has served on the central committee of the PFLP and on the Palestinian National Council and continues to be a PFLP member. In 1970 she married and moved to Lebanon, living in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp and then in Beirut. She studied business administration at the Beirut Arab University (distance learning) Whilst living in Ain al-Hilweh, she was responsible in the PFLP for mobilizing women in the south of Lebanon. During the civil war, she was involved with the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) in humanitarian and relief work and providing hot meals for the Palestinian fighters and was a member of the GUPW secretariat. Samira worked for the PFLP as the Director of the Bureau for Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon. She is retired but continues her political work and is serving as the PFLP representative on the Committee for the Employment of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, which includes civil society organizations, UNWRA and other agencies concerned with advocating for the right of Palestinian refugees to work in Lebanon. She has 4 children with her husband, who is also a member of the PFLP and of the Palestinian National Council. ( 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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- Interview conducted on: 22 October 2013
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- Duration: 2 hours, 21 minutes, 4 seconds
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- Language of interview: Arabic
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- Audio transcription and translation 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
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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