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Chronology of Palestinian Women’s & Feminist Organizing: 1893-2020

1893 — Palestinian Women Protest the Construction of a Settlement in Afula
1903 — Formation of the First Palestinian Women’s Organization: The Orthodox Aid Society for the Poor in Akka
1910 — Formation of the Yafa Orthodox Ladies Society
1919 — Formation of the Jerusalem Arab Ladies Society
1919 — Formation of Girl Guides Palestine
1921 — Formation of the Arab Women’s Association in Jerusalem, Yafa, and Haifa
1921 — Formation of the Society of Arab Women’s Union in Nablus
1921 — Formation of the Palestinian Women’s Union (PWU)
1924 — Formation of the Orthodox Society for the Destitute Sick in Jerusalem
1929 — October 26th — Formation of the Arab Women’s Executive (AWE): An Outcome of the First Arab Women’s Congress
1929 — Formation of the (National) Arab Women’s Association (AWA) by the Arab Women’s Executive
1930 — Formation of Arab Women’s Association Branch in Nazareth
1933 — Formation of the Women’s Society Zahrat al-Uqhawan (Chrysanthemum Flowers Association)
1933 — April 15th — Palestinian Women’s March in Jerusalem
1935 — Formation of Arab Women’s Association Branches in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem
1936 — May 2nd — AWA Jerusalem Delegates Arrive in Yafa in Support of the Arab Revolt
1936 — May 4th — Mass Women’s Protests Across Historic Palestine as Part of the Arab Revolt
1936 — May 5th — 600 Schoolgirls Convene to Discuss Strategies for the Arab Revolt
1936 — May 11th — (National) Arab Women’s Association Conference in Yafa Endorses General Strike
1938 — October 15th to 18th — Palestinian Women’s Delegation to the Eastern Women’s Congress for the Defense of Palestine Organized by Egyptian Feminist Huda Sha’rawi in Cairo, Egypt
1944 — December 7th — Formation of the Arab Feminist Union and the (Palestinian) Arab Women’s Union (AWU): An Outcome of the Second Arab Women’s Congress in Cairo
1946 — Arab Women’s Union establishes its first Medical Clinic in Jerusalem
1950 — Formation of Young Arab Women’s Association
1950 — Formation of the Palestinian Arab Women League in Lebanon
1965 — Formation of the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW)
1976 — Formation of Association Najdeh in Lebanon
1976 — August 12th — Formation of Beit Atfal Assumoud in Lebanon
1978 — Formation of the Palestinian Federation of Women’s Action Committees (PFWAC)
1980 — Formation of the Women’s Youth Center in Hebron
1981 — Formation of the Union of Palestinian Working Women’s Committees (UPWWC)
1982 — Formation of the Palestinian Women’s Committees (PWC)
1982 — Formation of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC)
1983 — Formation of the Union of Women’s Social Work Committees (UWSWC)
1985 — October 17th — Formation of the Palestinian American Women’s Association (PAWA) in Los Angeles, California
1986 — April — Formation of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Association (UPWA) the United States
1988 — 1000 Women Join the International Working Women’s Day March in Nablus
1988 — Formation of the Women’s Affairs Center (WAC), Nablus
1989 — Formation of the Women’s Affairs Center (WAC)
1989 — Formation of the Women’s Study Center (WSC), Jerusalem
1989 — Formation of the Muslim Woman Society (MWS), Jerusalem
1990 — Formation of the Union of Palestinian American Women, Washington DC
1991 — Formation of El-Fanar and Launch of Street Protests Against Femicide in Nazareth, Haifa, Akka, and al-Bireh
1991 — Formation of the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC)
1992 — Formation of the Women’s Affairs Technical Committees
1992 — Formation of the Palestinian Women’s Action Committee (PWAC)
1992 — Formation of the Association of Women Against Violence
1995 — Formation of Women’s Studies Department at Birzeit University
1995 — Formation of the Working Committee for Equality in Personal Status Laws, Nazareth
1996 — Formation of the al-Huda Society, al-Bireh
1997 — July —The Working Group on the Status of Palestinian Women in Israel (WGSPWI) Submits the NGO Report: Critique of Israel’s Combined Initial and Second Report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
1997 — Formation of the al-Khansaa Society, al-Bireh
1997 — Formation of the Women’s Charitable Solidarity Group Haneen, Nablus
1997 — Formation of the Women’s Action Department, Gaza Strip
1998 — Formation of Mashraqyat Centre, Gaza Strip
1998 — Formation of the Palestinian Women’s Model Parliament, West Bank and Gaza
2003 — Formation of the Islamic Women’s Movement in Palestine
2003 — Formation of Aswat: Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms
2007 — November — Formation of Al-Qaws For Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society
2012 — Formation of the Murabitat in Jerusalem
2019 — September 19th — Formation of Tal3’at and Street Mobilizations Against Femicide Across Palestine
2020 — Formation of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) in Turtle Island (the unceded lands known as North America)

Heba Zaqout was a Palestinian artist from Gaza, born in 1984. She studied graphic design at the Gaza Training College in 2003, and earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 2007. She was a fine arts teacher in Gaza and participated in exhibitions inside and outside of Palestine. Her most recent exhibition, “My Children in Quarantine” was held in 2021. Heba explained that through her works, she tried to express her feelings about the events going on around her and convey the suffering that she lived with as a Palestinian woman in Gaza, looking for hope for a better life. No to Racism speaks to women’s suffering, their need for love and peace, and their struggle against both a social reality that often depicts them as weak and the violence of Israeli occupation and siege.

Heba, along with two of her children, was killed during one of the zionist air strike attacks on Gaza citizens.

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