Seminar on the first woman minister in Iraq and the Arab world

The center for the revival of Arab scientific heritage at the University of Baghdad has organized a seminar entitled “Naziha al-Dulaimi: the first woman minister in Iraq and the Arab world” delivered by the lecturer Liqaa Amer Ashour. Naziha Jawdet al-Dulaimi was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement, a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women League, the first woman minister in the Iraqi modern history, as well as the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world. She was a women’s rights activist that contributed to efforts to pass the Personal Status Law in the Republic of Iraq in 1959, which was at that time the most advanced law in the Middle East in terms of the rights granted to women in general. The lecturer also dealt with the personal biography of this figure who was born in Baghdad in 1923 and entered the medical school in 1941 and served as a minister of municipalities in the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim during the 1950s, who joined the Iraqi Communist Party in 1948 and left Iraq in the 1970s and died in Germany after battling the effects of a debilitating stroke for several years in 2007 at the age of 84.