Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar (born 1946)
Hanan Ashrawi
Ashrawi at the Duisburg Audimax Campus, 29 November 2007
Born
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi
(1946-10-08) 8 October 1946 (age 77)
Nablus, Mandatory Palestine
Education
American University of Beirut (BA, MA) University of Virginia (Ph.D.)
Occupation
Politician
Spouse
Emile Ashrawi
Children
Amal Zeina
Parent(s)
Daoud Mikhail, Wadi'a Ass'ad
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (Arabic: حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar.
Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University. Beginning in the 1990s, Ashrawi was a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Ashrawi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Jerusalem in 1996 and was re-elected in 2006. She was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and 2018, becoming the body's first female member. She resigned in 2020.
As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights in 1994 and served as its Commissioner-General until 1995. In 1998, she also founded MIFTAH,[1] the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, and she continues to serve as head of its board of directors. In 1999, Ashrawi founded the National Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN).[2]
Ashrawi is the recipient of numerous awards from all over the world, including the French decoration, “d'Officier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur” in 2006;[3] the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation; the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize; the 2002 Olof Palme Prize; the 1999 International Women of Hope “Bread and Roses”; the Defender of Democracy Award – Parliamentarians for Global Action; the 50 Women of the Century; the 1996 Jane Addams International Women’s Leadership Award; the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women’s Award; the 1994 Pio Manzu Gold Medal Peace Award; and the 1992 Marissa Bellisario International Peace Award.
She is the author of several books, articles, poems and short stories on Palestinian politics, culture and literature. Her book This Side of Peace[4] (Simon & Schuster, 1995) earned worldwide recognition. Moreover, she is the recipient of eleven honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Arab world.
^"MIFTAH". miftah.org.
^"About AMAN". Coalition for Accountability and Integrity - AMAN.
^"September 20, 2016: Dr. Ashrawi receives the distinguished French decoration, "d". www.dci.plo.ps.
^Ashrawi, Hanan (5 June 1996). This Side of Peace. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684823423 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
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secretary. He later said that the PLO had "panicked at the thought" that HananAshrawi and Haidar Abd al-Shafi "might assume the leadership of the Palestine...
solution" to the Palestinian refugees "on the basis of Resolution 194". HananAshrawi, a member of the PLO Executive Committee has similarly declared that...
Middle East peace talks were faculty members of Birzeit University. HananAshrawi taught literature there. The South African-born sociologist Stanley...
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"Israeli terrorist aggression against the State of Palestine," and what HananAshrawi termed "a reign of terror directed against a captive Palestinian population...
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engage in militant activity, including recruitment, within prisons. HananAshrawi of the Palestinian National Council stated the hunger strikers had "truly...
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elected in 2009, and served as an adviser to Yasser Arafat. According to HananAshrawi (in This Side of Peace), in the early 1970s, Halevi was a member of...
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