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Additionally, you can click here to access the accompanying time-coded summary of the interview. Full transcripts and other oral history materials are available at the British Library Sound Archive, London, United Kingdom, and at the WLP office in Bethesda, MD. For more information, please consult our Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement Terms of Use. 

About the Interviewee* 

Rose Shomali (Palestine) was General Director of Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC). She pioneered a literacy program initiative implemented in numerous Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Director of Educational Program for UNICEF, in the West Bank and Gaza, 1998-2002, Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, 1995-1998, University of Bethlehem, Palestine. Shomali is a published researcher in economics, education, Journal of Palestinian Affairs and a book on women's political participation and decision-making. She is published poet, with five anthologies.

*This brief biography was recorded concurrently with the subject’s interview for the WLP Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement.

About the WLP Oral History Project

The WLP Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement preserves stories and lessons of women’s rights activists from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America who have left their mark on the struggle for women’s advancement. We have collected dozens of oral histories from 25 countries, and the project is ongoing. Since 2014, WLP has collaborated with the Sound Archive of the British Library to host the repository.

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