Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi (Arabic حنان عشراوي Hanan Ashrawi ʿ; born October 8, 1946 in Nablus, Samaria, the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine / Eretz Israel) is a Christian Arab ( Palestinian ) politician of the party of the " Third Way " and Anglistin.
Life
After studying English at the American University of Beirut, where she received the master's degree, Ashrawi studied Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and graduated with her doctorate. In 1973 she went back to Palestine, where she established the English Studies Department at the University of Bir Zait in the West Bank.
She was Director of the Department from 1973 to 1984, with a three-year hiatus from 1978 to 1981 and between 1986 and 1990, she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Until 1995 she was a faculty member of the Bir - Zait University, she has published poems, short stories and articles about Palestinian culture, literature (including an anthology of the literature of Palestine ) and politics.
Her father was a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Since 1974 she has been politically active. She founded the Legal Aid Committee of the Bir - Zait University and a project for the protection of human rights. Your political work was immediately famous when she joined the Intifada Political Committee in 1988. She served in these diplomatic committee until 1993. Between 1991 and 1993 she was the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process and member of the Management and Executive Committee of the delegation.
Between 1993 and 1995, the Palestinian Authority was created with the signing of the peace concluded by Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Ashrawi was Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights in Jerusalem, and later elected member ( constituency Jerusalem) of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
In 1996 Ashrawi was appointed Minister of Education and Research; 1998, it issued this resigned in protest against political corruption in the dominated Arafat Palestinian leadership.
In 1998 Ashrawi founded the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, an initiative that aims to promote human rights.
In 2000 she received an honorary doctorate from the Saint Mary's University, Halifax. In 2003 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize of the University of Sydney. In 1995, she published her memoir, This Side of Peace.
For 2007, Ashrawi is the owner of Mercator Professorship at the University of Duisburg -Essen.
Works
- This Side of Peace: A Personal Account (ISBN 0684802945 ) dt: I was born in Palestine, boiler Verlag 1995 ISBN 3-88680-573-5