About Jihan al-Mosli
Lived 1908 – 1996 (aged 87–88). Jihan al-Mosli was a politician.
Jihan al-Mosli (, 1908–1996) was a Syrian educator and politician. In 1960, she and Widad Haroun were appointed to the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic, becoming the first Syrian women to enter parliament.
Biography Al-Mosli was born in Damascus in 1908 to Salih Mosli and Fatima al-Sidawi. Her mother died when she was three years old, after which she was raised by her father. They left the Assembly when Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic in September the following year.
She never married, and died in 1996.
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Syrian educator and politician
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Jihan al-Mosli was born in 1908 in Damascus.
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Jihan al-Mosli died in 1996.
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Jihan al-Mosli was a politician.
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Jihan al-Mosli's recorded nationality: United Arab Republic.
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