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Person · Short-story writer and broadcaster
1927–1967
Born in Acre on 13 September 1927, she taught at the Greek Orthodox school there from 1943 to 1945 and wrote for Filastin as “the Girl from the Coast”. After the Nakba of 1948 she fled with her family to Lebanon, worked for the Near East radio station in Cyprus and then Beirut, and produced literary programmes for the radio stations of Baghdad and Kuwait. In 1964 she was among those who represented the women of Palestine at the first Palestine National Council. She died at Ramtha on 8 August 1967.
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The first Palestine National Congress met in Jerusalem on 28 May 1964, with nearly four hundred appointed delegates. On 2 June it announced the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization and approved its National Charter and Basic Law; Ahmad al-Shuqairi was elected its president.
Among those who represented the women of Palestine at the first Palestine National Council
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonSamira Azzam was born in PlaceAcre
Role: Born here: 13 September 1927, Acre
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 13 September 1927, Acre
Evidence version:palquest-samira-azzam-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonSamira Azzam participated in EventThe PLO is founded
Role: Among those who represented the women of Palestine at the first Palestine National Council
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s chronology: “Azzam Is Part of the Group Which Represents the Women of Palestine during the First Palestine National Council 1964”
Evidence version:palquest-samira-azzam-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.