Salwa Abu Khadra

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Salwa Abu Khadra
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Born1929 (age 93–94)
Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine
NationalityPalestinian
Political party Fatah
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Salwa Abu Khadra (born 1929) is a Palestinian politician and educator who is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah where she has held various posts. She is part of the first generation women leaders of both groups. [1]

Biography

Abu Khadra was born in Jaffa in 1929. [2] Her family is from Gaza. [3] In 1948 they had to leave Jaffa and settled in Damascus. [1]

Abu Khadra completed her secondary education at Saint Joseph Sisters School in Jaffa in 1945. [4] She obtained a certificate in education from the University of Oxford in 1947 and a degree in French literature from Saint Joseph University in 1952. [2] Later she settled in Kuwait [1] and played a significant role in the education of Palestinian girls. [2] She established the first nursery school in Kuwait. [5] She also founded a private school in Kuwait where she worked until 1990. [2] She left Kuwait due to the Gulf War in 1991 and settled in Egypt where her daughter had been living. [1]

Abu Khadra's political career began when she joined Fatah in 1965. [2] The same year she took part in the establishment of Palestinian women council. [6] In 1967 she became a board member of the General Union of Palestinian Women. [3] She has been a member of the Palestinian Higher Council for Culture, Science and Education since 1976 and a member of the revolutionary council of Fatah since 1980. [4] She also served as a member of the PLO's central committee. [3] She was elected as the secretary general of the General Union of Palestinian Women in May 1985. [7] She was also the secretary general of the women bureau of Fatah and served as a member of the Consultative Committee of the Palestinian Constitution. [2] Abu Khadra headed the Palestinian delegation at the second conference on women of the United Nations in 1980. [3]

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