Profiles of Remarkable Women: Abla Amawi
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Channel: Library of Congress · 2018 · Education
This interview with Abla Amawi, conducted in Istanbul by Mary-Jane Deeb of the Library of Congress, is part of a series that highlights the achievements of six exceptional Muslim women from Afghanistan, the Arab world and Turkey who not only have worked hard to attain personal success but have done much to help other women in their communities as well. Speaker Biography: Abla Amawi is an assistant resident representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) based in Amman, Jordan. Raised in a conservative family in Jordan, she received a Ph.D. in Politics from Georgetown University and turned down an academic career in the U.S. to work on problems of gender and poverty in the Middle East. A single mother of a 10-year-old-girl, she often takes her daughter on assignment. For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8172
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