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Mrs. Issam Abdel Hadi (1928 - 2013)
one of the pioneers of women's and social work and the national struggle since
1949 when she began her work in the Palestinian Women's Union in Nablus. One of
the institutions of the General Union of Palestinian Women. She won the Ibn
Rushd Prize for Free Thought in 2000. She was one of eight Palestinian women
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, as part of a project to award a
thousand women the Nobel Peace Prize.
her life
She was born in Nablus in 1928. She
initially studied at Al-Aishiya School for Girls in Nablus and completed her
secondary education at the Friends School in Ramallah. She is the mother of
Faisal, Saad, Fadia, and Fayhaa Abdel-Hadi.
her job
The limits of her work were not
limited to the struggle for women's rights only, but also to the struggle for
the rights of the Palestinian people. In 1969, she was arrested and tortured in
prison with her daughter, Fayhaa, on charges of providing the resistance with
material assistance and sheltering wanted fedayeen. As a result, the Israeli
occupation authorities deported them to Jordan, to be the first Palestinian
expelled.
In 1949 she was elected secretary of
the Arab Women's Union in Nablus. She was also elected president of the General
Union of Palestinian Women in 1965 at its first founding conference held in
Jerusalem. She is a member of the first National Council held in Jerusalem in
1964.
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