WOMEN POWER - A CREATIVE FORCE FOR FREEDOM: by Zahira Kamal (Palestine), ex Women's Affairs Minister

Home for Humanity’s Living Curriculum:

“Home, for me, is first of all about love, as well as about support and cooperation – because my own home has witnessed the establishment of almost all the organizations that I helped to co-found throughout my life." 

Zahira Kamal speaks to us from her home in East Jerusalem, a stone’s throw away from the historic Al-Aqsa Mosque. Built in 1936, it is the home in which she was born, and in which she lived most of her incredibly rich political life. It is the home where she endured house-arrest over and over again, and the home which birthed countless women’s organisations promoting women’s rights, education, economic empowerment, and political leadership. It is the home which hosted dialogue across borders and party-lines, and which served as a seedbed for societal transformation. Having lived her life under the continuous threats, oppression and complexity of occupation, Zahira…