Hanan Ashrawi

Politician and academic

• graduated from American University of Beirut and University of Virginia
• Spokesperson for Palestinian Liberation Organization
• 1996 member of Palestinian Legislative Council
• 1996-98 Minister for Higher Education
• Human Rights Commissioner for Palestine
• 2001- Media Director and Spokesperson for Arab League
• 1974 - activist for Palestinian women's movement
• publications "A passion for peace" (1994), "This side of peace" (1995)

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Ashrawi/Ashrawi.html

http://www.un.org/Dialogue/ashrawi

International Who’s Who of Women. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. p.44-45 (DWC collection REF CT3202.I58 2008)

Hanan Ashrawi. (n.d.) Wikipedia. Retrieved September 8, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ashrawi

Palestinian

b. 1940

Artist

• educated at the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art, Cairo, Academia de Belle Arte, Rome and Accademia St Giaccomo, Rome
• exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in London, Malaysia, Jordan, France, United States, and Kuwait
• works in silk screen, oil on canvas and sculpture
• best known work "Wall of Gaza"

Lloyd, Fran, ed. Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present. London: WAL (Women’s Art Library), 1999. Print. p.241, 219-222.(DWC collection N6260.C65 1999)

http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/al-shawa.html

Rania al Abdullah

Palestinian / Jordanian

b. 1970

Queen of Jordan

• Born in Kuwait
• Graduates with Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from American University in Cairo in 1991
• worked in banking and information technology
• Married King Abdullah of Jordan on June 10 1993
• 4 children Hussein, Iman, Salma, Hashem
• involved in charity work, especially the Jordan River Children's Project established in 1995
• first arab woman to launch a Child Abuse Prevention Project
• President of the Jordan Society for Organ Donation
• Head of Jordan Blood Disease Society and International Patron of the Osteoporosis Foundation
• Honorary Doctorate from University of Exeter 2001

The International Who's Who of Women 3rd ed. Europa Publications: London, 2002 p.466

http://www.queenrania.jo

Palestinian

1923-

Activist

• educated Beruit Arab University
• Founder of Arab Union Society 1950
• El-Bireh 1952
• Secretary-General of Union of Palestinian Women in Jerusalem 1965
• Founder and President of Society of In'ash El Usra, a training center for women, El Bireh 1965
• Head of Palestinian delegation to UN Conference on the Status of Women 1995
• President of Union of Voluntary Women's Societies
• published From the Intifada to the State 1988

Samiha Khalil. Wikipedia. Retrieved September 2, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiha_Khalil

International Who’s Who of Women. 3rd ed. London: Europa, 2002. Print. p.295 (DWC collection REF CT 3202.I58 2002)