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The Syrian feminist movement essentially began towards the end of the 1800s, during the time period in which modern Lebanon and Syria were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. It was during the time of Arabic Nahba , or awakening, in which what some women began to pioneer movements in the interests of their rights and liberties. [ 13 ]
Historically, the women´s movement in Syria had been represented by the Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (1920-1946), but the Women's Union was split when Syria and Lebanon split in 1946. In 1963, the Ba’th Arab Socialist Party became the ruling party of Syria. The Ba’th’s own constitution aims for social and political reform, one of these ...
Syrian women's rights activists (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Syrian feminists" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Aisha al-Dibs (Arabic: عائشة الدبس) is a Syrian civil society activist and the head of the Women's Affairs Office in the Political Affairs Administration of Syria's transitional government. She became the first woman to hold an official position in the new Syrian administration that was formed after the fall of the Assad regime. [3]
Nur al-Fayha ("Light of Damascus"), was a women's rights organization in Syria, active during the Faisal government, between January 1919 and July 1920. [ 1 ] The organization was composed of a group of elite women married to male modernist politicians and loyalists of the Faisal government.
The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946. It has also been called Lebanese Women’s Union, Syro-Lebanese Feminist Union, Syrian Arab Women's Union and Arab Women’s Union.
The Women's Affairs Office (Arabic: مكتب شؤون المرأة) is a department of the Government of Syria.It was created on 22 December 2024 by the Syrian transitional government in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime [1] as part of broader efforts to include Syrian women in political and social leadership.
Georgette Barsoum (Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, Arabic: جُورْجِيت بَرْصُوم) is an Assyrian human rights and feminist activist. Involved in organizing feminist struggles in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, particularly as the coordinator of the Kongreya Star Congress, she was elected president of the Syriac Women's Union in April 2024.