An early pilot · A community project
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Person · Women’s rights leader; Minister of Women’s Affairs
born 1945
Born in Jerusalem in 1945, she studied science at Ain Shams University in Cairo and taught at the Women’s Teachers Training College in Ramallah for twenty years. In 1978 she founded the Palestinian Federation of Women’s Action Committees, which she chaired until 1992; she was jailed in 1979 and kept under town arrest from 1980 to 1986. She advised the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference of 1991, and was Minister of Women’s Affairs from 2003 until 2006.
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On 30 October 1991 a peace conference opened in Madrid under American and Soviet sponsorship. Palestinians took part within a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, their side headed by Haydar Abd al-Shafi; talks followed on a Palestinian-Israeli and a Jordanian-Israeli track.
On the advisory committee to the Palestinian delegation
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
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PersonZahira Kamal was born in PlaceJerusalem
Role: Born here: 1945, Jerusalem
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 Jerusalem in 1945
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonZahira Kamal participated in EventThe Madrid peace conference
Role: On the advisory committee to the Palestinian delegation
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: member of the Advisory Committee to the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid conference
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.