Arab Women's Executive Committee

Arab Women's Executive Committee (AWE) was a Palestinian women's organization, founded in 1929. It was the first women's organization in Palestine, and the starting point of the Palestinian women's movement.[1]

It was formed in Jerusalem in 1929. Its purpose was to found a women's movement in Palestine. The founding members were Wahida al-Khalidi (president), Matiel Mogannam and Katrin Deeb (secretaries), Shahinda Duzdar (treasurer), Naʿimiti al-Husayni, Tarab Abd al-Hadi, Mary Shihada, Anisa al-Khadra, Khadija al-Husayni, Diya alNashashibi, Melia Sakakini, Zlikha al-Shihabi, Kamil Budayri, Fatima al-Husayni, Zahiya alNashashibi, and Saʿdiyya al-Alami.

It organized and hosted the First Palestine Arab Women's Congress or First Arab Women's Congress in Jerusalem in 1929, which was the first international women's conference it the Arab and the Islamic world and a predecessor of the First Eastern Women's Congress.

References
  1. Fleischmann, E. (2000). The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-39. Journal of Palestine Studies, 29(3), 16-32. doi:10.2307/2676453
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