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Labibah Thabit

Labibah Thabit

Lebanese women's rights activist


Labibah Thabit, was a Lebanese women's rights activist. She was a pioneer figure of feminism in her country.

She was the co-founder of the pioneering Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union upon its foundation in 1920, and served as its first President. She was a pioneering figure of the first organized women's movement in Lebanon and Syria. [1]


References

  1. Stephan, Rita, 'Women's Rights Activism in Lebanon', in Pernille Arenfeldt, and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley (eds), Mapping Arab Women's Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within (Cairo, 2012; online edn, Cairo Scholarship Online, 20 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.5743/cairo/9789774164989.003.0006, accessed 16 Oct. 2023.

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