Sadhij Bahaa Nassar

Sadhij Nassar (born Baha'i; 1900–1970) was a Palestinian activist and journalist. She is known for her work on the newspaper Al-Karmil with her husband, Najib Nassar, and for being the first Palestinian woman taken as a political prisoner under the British Mandate. In 2022, Middle East Eye described her as one of 'the most prominent Palestinian feminists'.

Personal life Sadhij Nassar was born in Haifa when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Her grandfather was the founder of the Baha'i faith, Baháʼu'lláh. Her father was his son, Mírzá Badíʻu'lláh Effendí. Nassar could speak four languages. For example, she encouraged Palestinian mothers to raise their children equally, regardless of gender, and all Palestinian women to work in order to support economic independence. Ellen Fleischmann describes Nassar's journalistic work between 1926 and 1933 as a kind of 'one-woman press', covering a wide range of topics on local, regional and global levels. From March 1939, she was held in administrative detention under Defense Emergency Regulations. She was imprisoned in a Bethlehem prison for eleven months.

In 2020, the Palestinian Museum programmed a play inspired by her husband's life called Saheb Al-Karmil (in English: The Owner of Al-Karmil).

In 2022, Middle East Eye ran a feature entitled 'In pictures, Palestinian women and anti-colonial resistance in the 1930s', celebrating the work of Palestinian women activists including Nassar.