Rawya Shawa
Rawya Shawa | |
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1996–2017 | |
| Constituency | Gaza |
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| Born | December 1944 Gaza City, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 3 July 2017 Gaza City |
Rawya Rashad Said al-Shawa (Arabic: راوية الشوا, December 1944 – 3 July 2017) was a Palestinian journalist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Council in 1996.
Biography
[edit]Shawa was born in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood of Gaza City in December 1944 to a Lebanese mother and Palestinian father. Her father Rashad was mayor of Gaza from 1972 to 1982. She married Aoun Saadi al-Shawa (who succeeded her father as mayor), with whom she had four children.[1] Having graduated with a literature degree from the American University in Cairo in 1964,[2] she worked as a journalist for the al-Nahar al-Maqdasiya and al-Quds newspapers.[citation needed]
In the 1996 elections to the Legislative Council, she ran as an independent candidate in Gaza, and was one of five women elected, becoming the first female Palestinian MPs.[3] She was re-elected in 2006 on the Independent Palestine list.[2]
She died in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on 3 July 2017.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ وفاة النائب راوية الشوا Shasha
- ^ a b Shawa, Rawya Rashad (1948-2017) PASSIA
- ^ The Political Participation of Palestinian Women in Official and Non-Official Organizations in Limited Horizon ICSR
- ^ Death of MP Rawia Shawa after struggling with the disease Palestinian Legislative Council
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- 1944 births
- Journalists from Gaza City
- The American University in Cairo alumni
- 20th-century Palestinian journalists
- Members of the 1996 Palestinian Legislative Council
- Members of the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council
- 2017 deaths
- Politicians from Gaza City
- Palestinian women journalists
- 20th-century Palestinian women politicians
- 21st-century Palestinian women politicians
- 21st-century Palestinian women writers
- 20th-century Palestinian politicians
- 21st-century Palestinian politicians