Sadhij Nassar

ساذج نصار

1900 CE · 1318 AH† – 1970 CE · 1390 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Haifa → Damascus

Palestinian journalist and activist from Haifa (1900–1970). She worked with her husband Najib Nassar on the newspaper al-Karmil, founding its Women's Section in 1926, co-founded the Arab Women's Union in Haifa, and was the first Palestinian woman taken as a political prisoner under the British Mandate, held for eleven months in Bethlehem in 1939; after the Nakba of 1948 she lived in Lebanon and then Damascus, where she died.