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Person · Journalist; co-founder of the Arab Women’s Union in Haifa
1900–1970
Born in Haifa in 1900, she wrote from 1923 for al-Karmel, the newspaper her husband Najib Nassar had founded in Haifa in 1908, and helped him edit and run it, opening its Women’s Section in 1926. In 1930 she co-founded, with Mariam al-Khalil, the Arab Women’s Union in Haifa, which played a prominent part in the general strike of 1936; the British detained her for eleven months in 1938–39, charging her with supplying weapons to the rebels. She died in Damascus in 1970.
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الثورة الفلسطينية الكبرى
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A nationwide Palestinian uprising against British rule, from April 1936 to the late summer of 1939: a six-month general strike, then an armed revolt, which Britain put down by force.
Organised women farmers and demonstrations for the general strike; detained by the British for eleven months, 1938–39
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonSadhij Nassar was born in PlaceHaifa
Role: Born here: 1900, Haifa
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 1900, Haifa
Evidence version:palquest-sadhij-nassar-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonSadhij Nassar participated in EventThe Great Revolt
Role: Organised women farmers and demonstrations for the general strike; detained by the British for eleven months, 1938–39
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s chronology: “Nassar Works to Organize Women Farmers and Women Demonstrations to Support the General Strike”; detained for eleven months, 1938 to 1939
Evidence version:palquest-sadhij-nassar-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.