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May Sayegh
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Person · Poet; a founder of the General Union of Palestinian Women
May Sayegh
مي صايغ1941–2023
Born in Gaza City in 1941 into an educated Christian family committed to the national struggle, she studied philosophy and sociology at Cairo University, where her poems were first published in al-Gumhouriyya and read on the Voice of Palestine. She was a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Women in 1965, joined Fatah in 1968 and fought with it in Amman until 1971, and then moved to Beirut. She died in Amman on 5 February 2023.
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