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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000092/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Amne Sulieman Jabril was born in Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, Beirut, in 1952 and lived there until the age of 18. She studied at the Beirut Arab University. Amne began her activism whilst she was still at school, when she volunteered with her friends to support the Palestinian fighters by collecting clothes and food. After this, Amne was involved in the Palestinian Students’ Union and then joined the Fatah movement. In the early 1970s, the organization selected her to be their representative in the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) and she has been involved with the GUPW ever since, serving on different committees. Currently she is a member of the GUPW general secretariat and is the head of the Lebanese branch of GUPW. During the civil war, Amne was involved in humanitarian and relief work through the GUPW. She is credited by others as playing an important organizing role during a siege of Shatila camp during the War of the Camps in the mid-1980s. GUPW in Lebanon works with the UN and other donor agencies to provide social and welfare services to Palestinian refugee women and their families in Lebanon and to empower Palestinian refugee women to play a role in the Palestinian struggle and the ‘daily battle of life’. It was recognized by the GUPW general conference as the most active branch. At the time of the interview, the Union was working with Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria. ( 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: 04 November 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes, 55 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
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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