Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923-2007) was an Iraqi physician and politician who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Iraq, and one of the first in the Arab world, when she was appointed Minister of Municipalities in 1959 under the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim. A trained physician, she was also a founder and leader of the Iraqi Women's League, through which she campaigned for legal reforms expanding women's rights in marriage, divorce and inheritance, contributions that fed into Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law. Active in left-wing and Communist-aligned politics, she was later forced into exile following political upheavals in Iraq and continued her activism from abroad.
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RolePhysician, politician and feminist activist; co-founder and first president of the Iraqi Womens League; first woman minister in Iraq and the Arab world 1 BirthplaceBaghdad, Mandatory Iraq 1 Role
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What was Naziha al-Dulaimi's part in Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law?
A tribute by Salam Ali says she was instrumental in forming the law, which was based on a draft from her Iraqi Women's League.
According to Salam Ali's tribute published by the British group Liberation, the Iraqi Women's League won many gains for women, in particular Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959. He writes that as the League's president she was instrumental in forming the law, which was based on a draft put forward by the League, and that it protected women from arranged marriages at an early age and amended other provisions on marriage and the family. This is a sympathetic account by a fellow member of the movement, so it describes her role in the law in warmer terms than a neutral legal history might.
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WikipediaIntroduction, opening sentence
Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 - 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement.
Early life section, opening sentence
Al-Dulaimi was born in Baghdad, where her family settled in the late 19th century.
Death section, only sentence
She died on 9 October 2007 in Herdecke at the age of 84 from complications associated with her stroke.
Introduction, second and third sentences
She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League, the first woman minister in modern Iraq history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.
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Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi
Naziha al-Dulaimi: Gender
Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923-2007) was an Iraqi physician and politician who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Iraq, and one of the first in the Arab world, when she was appointed Minister of Municipalities in 1959 under the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim.
In Era: The Contemporary Period, lead paragraph, lifespan
Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 - 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement.
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