Women's Awakening Club, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 12 relations: Arab Feminist Union, Faisal I of Iraq, First Palestine Arab Women's Congress, Gertrude Bell, Hijab, Huzaima bint Nasser, Iraq, Iraqi Revolt, Iraqi Women's Union, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Nuri al-Said, Paulina Hassoun.

2. 1920s establishments in Iraq
3. Feminist organizations in Iraq
4. Women's rights in Iraq

Arab Feminist Union

Arab Feminist Union (AFU), also called All-Arab Feminist Union, General Arab Feminist Union and Arab Women's Union, was an umbrella organisation of feminist associations from Arab countries, founded in 1945.

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Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal I bin al-Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (فيصل الأول بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933.

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First Palestine Arab Women's Congress

The First Palestine Arab Women's Congress, also First Arab Women's Congress, or the Palestinian Arab Women's Congress was a women's rights conference held in Jerusalem on 26 October 1929.

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.

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Hijab

In modern usage, hijab (translit) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim women.

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Huzaima bint Nasser

Huzaima bint Nasser (حزيمة بنت ناصر; "firm believer"; 1884 – 27 March 1935) was an Arabian noblewoman, Sharifa of Mecca.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Iraqi Revolt

The Iraqi Revolt began in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations by Iraqis, including protests by embittered officers from the old Ottoman Army, against the British who published the new land ownership and the burial taxes at Najaf.

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Iraqi Women's Union

The Iraqi Women's Union (IWU) was a women's advocacy group founded in 1945 which lasted until the Iraqi government crackdown on leftist organizations in the late 1950s. Women's Awakening Club and Iraqi Women's Union are feminism and history, feminist organizations in Iraq and women's rights in Iraq.

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Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (جميل صدقي الزهاوي,; 17 June 1863 – January 1936) was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher.

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Nuri al-Said

Nuri Pasha al-Said CH (نوري السعيد; December 1888 – 15 July 1958) was an Iraqi politician during the Mandatory Iraq and the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.

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Paulina Hassoun

Pauline Hassoun (1895–1969) was an Iraqi journalist and teacher, who was the first woman to found and publish a magazine in Iraq.

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See also

1920s establishments in Iraq

• Badarash
• Baghdad High School for Girls
• Chamber of Deputies of Iraq
• Peshmerga
• Senate of Iraq
• Shamash School
• Thanawiyat Al-Basra
• Women's Awakening Club

Feminist organizations in Iraq

• Iraqi Women's Union
• Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
• Women's Awakening Club

Women's rights in Iraq

• Feminism in Iraq
• Iraqi Women's Union
• Nina Iraq
• Polygamy in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Prostitution in Iraq
• Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency
• Violence against women in Iraq
• Women's Awakening Club

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Awakening_Club

Also known as Nadi al-Nahda al-Nisa'iyya, Women's Renaissance Club.