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- ↑ Fleischmann, E. (2003). The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. Storbritannien: University of California Press.
- ↑ Fleischmann, E. (2003). The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. Storbritannien: University of California Press.