About Wahida al-Khalidi
Wahida al-Khalidi was an independence activist and women's rights activist.
Wahida al-Khalidi was a Palestinian women's rights activist.
She was from Iraq. She married the Palestine politician Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi (1894β1962).
She was a founding member of the pioneer women's organization Arab Women's Association of Palestine in 1929, and served as its first President. The pioneers of the Palestinian women's movement generally came from the minority of unveiled modernist middle class women with Western education, who advocated women's emancipation in order to contribute to the success of a future free Palestine.
Her name was on numerous petitions, telegrams and other activities during the early 1930s. She attended the Eastern Women's Conference for the Defense of Palestine in Cairo in 1938.
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Who was Wahida al-Khalidi?
Palestinian women's rights activist
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Wahida al-Khalidi was an independence activist and women's rights activist.
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Wahida al-Khalidi's recorded nationality: Palestine.
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