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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000102/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Zoya was born in 1955 in the suburbs of Beirut. Her mother was a homemaker and her father was a carpenter and a butcher. She graduated in business administration from university in 1973. Zoya first became involved in women's organizations in the 1980s when she volunteered with the Lebanese League for Women’s Rights. She became head of women's affairs in the Secours Populaire Libanais, from 1984 to 1995. In 1995 Zoya was involved in a public hearing for the Arab Women's Court about violence against women, in preparation for the Beijing Conference for Women. In 1997, she co-founded the Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LECORVAW) In 2005 she co-founded Kafa: Enough Violence and Exploitation to combat violence against women, trafficking and sexual exploitation of women, and child sexual abuse. Since 2007, Zoya has been part of a group working to pass an anti-domestic violence law in Lebanon. ( 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: 31 minutes, 4 seconds
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- Language of interview: English
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- آسيا -- لبنان -- بيروت -- بيروت
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- The audio is not complete for this interview due to a malfunction of the digital recorder.
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- Audio transcription by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan , info@captivatearabia.com.
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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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