Iraqi Women's League
The Iraqi Women's League was an Iraqi women's organization founded in the 1950s.
Saddam Hussein's 1979 rise to power resulted in a crackdown on members of the League, which was forced underground. The novelist Iqbal al-Qazwini, in East Berlin as the League's delegate to the Women's International Democratic Federation in 1978, remained in exile there.[1]
After Saddam's removal, league membership rose again: by August 2003 it had risen to five hundred women, though many of the younger members lacked organizational experience.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Iqbal Al-Qazwini. Zubaida's Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp. 124–5. ISBN 978-1-55861-745-2.
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