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Person · Journalist and member of the Legislative Council
1948–2017
Born in Gaza in 1948, she studied literature at the American University in Cairo and worked as a journalist and columnist. In 1992 she founded the Gaza Cultural and Development Group; she was elected to the Legislative Council for Gaza City as an independent in 1996, and again in 2006, and chaired the board of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees. She died in 2017.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
الانتخابات التشريعية الفلسطينية 2006
On 25 January 2006 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip elected their Legislative Council, and Hamas’s Change and Reform list won 74 of its 132 seats. Israel and the Quartet refused to deal with the government Hamas formed, and the rift that followed divided Gaza from the West Bank.
Elected on the Independent Palestine list
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
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PersonRawya al-Shawa was born in PlaceGaza City
Role: Born here: 1948, Gaza
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: Born in Gaza in 1948
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PersonRawya al-Shawa participated in EventThe 2006 legislative elections
Role: Elected on the Independent Palestine list
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: was elected to the second PLC (Independent Palestine list) in the January 2006 elections
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.