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Arab Women's Union Of Damascus
The Union of Women's Societies in Damascus (Ittihad al-jamiyyat al-nisaiyya fi Dimashq) was a women's organization in Syria, founded in 1933. It was founded under the name Arab Women's Union in Damascus (Ittihad al-Arabi al-nisa i fi Dimashq), but changed its name to Union of Women's Societies in Damascus in 1944. In 1967 it was incorporated in to the General Union of Syrian Women. It played in important role in the campaign for women's suffrage in Syria. History The Arab Women's Union in Damascus was founded when several small women's groups in Damascus united to form an umbrella organization under the leadership of the leading Syrian feminist Adila Bayhum al-Jaziri in 1933. This was a period when the Syrian women's movement was dominated by the large Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union. In the 1930s and the 1940s, the Arab Women's Union of Damascus presented a women's suffrage petition to President Hashim al-Atassi and to President Shukri al-Quwatli, as well as directly to the Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, the east and southeast, Jordan to Jordan–Syria border, the south, and Israel and Lebanon to Lebanon–Syria border, the southwest. It is a republic under Syrian transitional government, a transitional government and comprises Governorates of Syria, 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 25 million across an area of , it is the List of countries and dependencies by population, 57th-most populous and List of countries and dependencies by area, 87th-largest country. The name "Syria" historically referred to a Syria (region), wider region. The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization. Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Union Of Syrian Women
The General Union of Syrian Women (GUSW) is an organization founded in 1967 with the goal of mobilizing Syrian women by helping them to develop and further their education, political activism, and other skills to become more effective contributors in socio-economic contexts. The union's first president was Saud al Abdallah. While Syrian women have historically held more rights compared to other women in the Arab world, the GUSW works to put an end to the continued isolation and marginalization of Syrian women and to help women become more effective participants in Syrian society. The movement was born out of the unification of various welfare associations, volunteer organizations, and welfare groups caused by various political shifts in Syria. The women of Syria first gained the right to vote in 1953, but were unable to pass their citizenship to their children, unlike Syrian men. In 1973, the Ba'athist regime of Syria pursued equality for women in Syria by amending an article t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Suffrage In Syria
Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was in effect during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), as well as in American Revolution, Revolutionary and early-independence Women's suffrage in New Jersey, New Jersey (1776–1807) in the US.Karlsson Sjögren, Åsa, ''Männen, kvinnorna och rösträtten: medborgarskap och representation 1723–1866'' [Men, women, and suffrage: citizenship and representation 1723–1866], Carlsson, Stockholm, 2006 (in Swedish). Pitcairn Islands, Pitcairn Island allowed women to vote for its councils in 1838. The Kingdom of Hawai'i, which originally had universal suffrage in 1840, rescinded this in 1852 and was subsequently annexed by the United States in 1898. In the years after 1869, a number of provinces held by the British Empire, British and Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adila Bayhum
Adila Bayhum-al-Jazairi (; 1900–1975) was a Syrian (originally Lebanese) feminist, independence activist and philanthropist. She was a pioneer of the Syrian women's movement, as well as supporter of Syrian independence from France. Life She was born in a wealthy family in Beirut. She participated as a journalist in the magazine ''Fata al-Arabi''. In 1922, she married a member of the Jaza'iri family and settled in Damascus in Syria. She was a Co-founder of the Damascus Women's Awakening Society in 1927. She was the founder of the Dawhet al-Adab Society in 1928, which founded an Arab nationalist girls' school with the same name. For her effort she was given the Medal of Educational Honor. She was a Co-founder of the Syrian Women's Union in 1928, and served as the President of the Arab Women's Union of Damascus between 1933 and 1967 and Honorary President in 1967–1975. She was the Syrian delegate to the Eastern Women's Conference for the Defense of Palestine in Cairo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union
{{Short description, Women's organization in Lebanon and Syria The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946. It has also been called Lebanese Women’s Union, Syro-Lebanese Feminist Union, Syrian Arab Women's Union and Arab Women’s Union. It has been referred to as the starting point of the active women's movement in Lebanon and Syria, which were united until the split of the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon in 1946. History In both Syria and Lebanon, a women's movement developed early for the Middle East. During the tanzimat reform era, girls' schools and a women's press was founded in Syria and Lebanon, and the issue of women's position was discussed. In Damascus, the modernist Nur al-Fayha association and its magazine under Nazik al-Abid played an important pioneer role in feminist organization in 1919-1920, although it did not last. In 1920–21, seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Women's Union Of Damascus
The Union of Women's Societies in Damascus (Ittihad al-jamiyyat al-nisaiyya fi Dimashq) was a women's organization in Syria, founded in 1933. It was founded under the name Arab Women's Union in Damascus (Ittihad al-Arabi al-nisa i fi Dimashq), but changed its name to Union of Women's Societies in Damascus in 1944. In 1967 it was incorporated in to the General Union of Syrian Women. It played in important role in the campaign for women's suffrage in Syria. History The Arab Women's Union in Damascus was founded when several small women's groups in Damascus united to form an umbrella organization under the leadership of the leading Syrian feminist Adila Bayhum al-Jaziri in 1933. This was a period when the Syrian women's movement was dominated by the large Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union. In the 1930s and the 1940s, the Arab Women's Union of Damascus presented a women's suffrage petition to President Hashim al-Atassi and to President Shukri al-Quwatli, as well as directly to the Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashim Al-Atassi
Hashim al-Atassi (; 11 January 1875 – 5 December 1960) was a Syrian politician and statesman who served as the President of Syria on three occasions from 1936 to 1939, 1949 to 1951 and 1954 to 1955. Background and early career He was born in Homs in 1875 to the large, landowning and politically active Atassi family. He studied public administration at the Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Istanbul, and graduated in 1893. He began his political career in 1888 in the Ottoman vilayet of Beirut, and through the years, up to 1918, served as Governor of Homs, Hama, Baalbek, Anatolia, and Jaffa, which included the then-small suburb of Tel Aviv. In 1919, after the defeat of Ottoman Turkey during World War I, he was elected chairman of the Syrian National Congress, the equivalent of a modern parliament. On 8 March 1920 that body declared independence as a constitutional monarchy, under King Faisal I. He became prime minister during this short-lived period, for French occupation soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shukri Al-Quwatli
Shukri al-Quwatli (; 6 May 189130 June 1967) was a Syrian politician and statesman who was the first president of post-independence Syria, in 1943. He began his career as a dissident working towards the independence and unity of the Ottoman Empire's Arab territories and was consequently imprisoned and tortured for his activism. When the Kingdom of Syria was established, Quwatli became a government official, though he was disillusioned with monarchism and co-founded the republican Independence Party. Quwatli was immediately sentenced to death by the French who took control over Syria in 1920, following the Franco-Syrian War. Afterward, he based himself in Cairo where he served as the chief ambassador of the Syrian-Palestinian Congress, cultivating particularly strong ties with Saudi Arabia. Quwatli utilized his connections with Saudi Arabia to help finance the Great Syrian Revolt (1925–1927). In 1930, the French authorities pardoned Quwatli and thereafter, he returned to Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Women's Union
Arab Feminist Union (AFU), also called All-Arab Feminist Union, General Arab Feminist Union and Arab Women's Union, was an umbrella organisation of feminist associations from Arab countries, founded in 1945.Weber, C. (2001). Unveiling Scheherazade: Feminist Orientalism in the International Alliance of Women, 1911-1950. Feminist Studies, 27(1), 125-157. doi:10.2307/3178453 Its purpose was to achieve social and political gender equality while promoting Arab nationalism. History The AFU was formed by the Egyptian Feminist Union The Egyptian Feminist Union () was the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt. History and profile The Egyptian Feminist Union was founded at a meeting on 6 March 1923 at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi, who served as its first president ... (EFU) under Huda Sharawi. The EFU was the starting point of the organized feminist movement in the Arab World when it was founded in 1923. Becoming a member of the International Women Suffrage Alliance and Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Women's Congress Of 1944
Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years. In the 9th century BCE, the Assyrians made written references to Arabs as inhabitants of the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. Throughout the Ancient Near East, Arabs established influential civilizations starting from 3000 BCE onwards, such as Dilmun, Gerrha, and Magan (civilization), Magan, playing a vital role in trade between Mesopotamia, and the History of the Mediterranean region, Mediterranean. Other prominent tribes include Midian, ʿĀd, and Thamud mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Bible and Quran. Later, in 900 BCE, the Qedarites enjoyed close relations with the nearby Canaan#Canaanites, Canaanite and Aramaeans, Aramaean states, and their territory extended from Lower Egypt to the Southern Levant. From 1200 BCE to 110 BCE, powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jihan Al-Mosli
Jihan al-Mosli (, 1908–1996) was a Syrian educator and politician. In 1960, she and Widad Haroun were appointed to the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic, becoming the first Syrian women to enter parliament. Biography Al-Mosli was born in Damascus in 1908 to Salih Mosli and Fatima al-Sidawi.Esther Meininghaus (2016''Creating Consent in Ba‘thist Syria: Women and Welfare in a Totalitarian State''pp53–66 Her mother died when she was three years old, after which she was raised by her father. Having demonstrated she could memorise passages from the Quran, she was sent to a local girl's primary school. She later attended teacher training college and obtained a baccalaureate in 1927, after which she studied at a higher teacher college. She subsequently worked as a teacher and became headmistress of a secondary school for girls. In 1944 she became secretary of the Association of Women's Associations. Three years later she earned a law degree. She stopped wearing a veil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adila Bayhum
Adila Bayhum-al-Jazairi (; 1900–1975) was a Syrian (originally Lebanese) feminist, independence activist and philanthropist. She was a pioneer of the Syrian women's movement, as well as supporter of Syrian independence from France. Life She was born in a wealthy family in Beirut. She participated as a journalist in the magazine ''Fata al-Arabi''. In 1922, she married a member of the Jaza'iri family and settled in Damascus in Syria. She was a Co-founder of the Damascus Women's Awakening Society in 1927. She was the founder of the Dawhet al-Adab Society in 1928, which founded an Arab nationalist girls' school with the same name. For her effort she was given the Medal of Educational Honor. She was a Co-founder of the Syrian Women's Union in 1928, and served as the President of the Arab Women's Union of Damascus between 1933 and 1967 and Honorary President in 1967–1975. She was the Syrian delegate to the Eastern Women's Conference for the Defense of Palestine in Cairo in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
