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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000096/00001
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- Abstract:
- Iqbal Doughan was born in the 1940s in Beirut. Her father was a Muslim cleric and her mother was an educated homemaker. Iqbal graduated in law from the Beirut Arab University in 1964. She began her political activism when she was 13 years old, joining the Arab Nationalist Movement. She continued to be involved with the Arab Nationalist Movement throughout her university years. She left the ANM when it became divided after the 1967 war, which also coincided with starting her married life. She worked as head of the legal department for REGIE, the Lebanese tobacco regulatory authority and worked to improve working conditions for the mainly female workforce. She then began working as a lawyer, joining the Bar Association, and is currently head of the family committee in the Bar Association. In 1994, she established the Working Women’s League in Lebanon to advocate for an end to discriminatory laws against women. In 2000, Iqbal was elected president of the Lebanese Women's Council (LWC) As LWC president, Iqbal organized many sit-ins, demonstrations and conferences in solidarity with the Iraqi and Palestinian people and she also participated in two missions to Iraq to break the sanctions before 2003. She organized lobbying efforts to include more women in government and campaigns to encourage and support Lebanese women running for political positions. She is part of a number of legal reform campaigns for women to be able to pass on their nationality to their children, to introduce a quota for women in parliamentary elections, for a domestic violence law and for changes to the personal status laws. ( 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: 29 October 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes, 8 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.
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- 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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