Hatoon al-Fassi
Saudi Arabian historian, author and women's rights activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi (هتون أجواد الفاسي) is a Saudi Arabian historian, author[3][4] and women's rights activist.[5] She is an associate professor of women's history at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia,[2] where she has been employed since 1989 and at the International Affairs Department at Qatar University.[1] At the university, al-Fassi carries out historical research. Al-Fassi claims from her research into the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea that women in the kingdom had more independence than women in modern Saudi Arabia.[6] Al-Fassi was active in women's right to vote campaigns for the 2005[5][7] and 2011 municipal elections[8][9][10] and was active in a similar campaign for the 2015 municipal elections.[11] She was arrested in late June 2018[12] as part of a crackdown on women's activists[13] and was released in early May 2019.[14]
Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi هتون أجواد الفاسي | |
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Born | 1964[1] |
Nationality | Saudi Arabian[1] |
Occupation | Assistant professor[2] |
In November 2018, while still in jail, she was awarded the MESA Academic Freedom Award for 2018.[15][16]