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Ashrawi, Hanan

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Ashrawi, Hanan (1946– )

Palestinian political leader. She was chief spokesperson of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation at the Madrid peace conference in 1991, but refused to join Yassir Arafat's Palestinian Authority. In 1994 she launched the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights to defend the rights of citizens in the Palestinian self-rule areas of Gaza and Jericho. In January 1996 she was elected to the newly formed Palestinian Council.

Born in Ramallah, in the British mandate for Palestine (now the West Bank), she opposed the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. She became professor of English literature at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank in 1981. She is a Christian.



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