The Nabeha Dalla Collection
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PERIOD

1952 - 2010

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BIOGRAPHY

Nabeha Dalla Murqos was born in the village of Kafr Yassif in Galilee in 1939, lived through the 1948 Nakba and the displacement and fought against military rule. She is a social and political activist who served as a member of the Democratic Women's Movement and many feminist organizations, as well as a human, children's, women's and workers' rights activist. She studied nursing in Yafa. She was also a constant political companion of her husband, Nimer Murqos, head of the Kafr Yassif Local Council, participated in many international feminist political conferences in South Africa, Paris, Cuba and Germany, and has been a volunteer for many years in the field of humanitarian relief in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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DESCRIPTION

The Nabeha Dalla Collection contains photographs and documents covering teacher training courses and meetings in Yafa during the 1950s, and the role of the feminist movement in political action in the 1980s and 1990s, such as their organization of a demonstration in front of the American Embassy, their demonstrations against rising prices, and visits to Jenin Camp during the First Intifada 1987.
The documents include two sections, the first covering the women's movement such as letters of gratitude, Women's Day greetings, invitations from the Democratic Women's Union Movement, and a statement about the work of the Democratic Women's Movement for two and a half years. The other section covers political work in general, such as lectures of the General Secretary of the Communist Party, newspaper clippings including articles by Dalla, such as her article titled "From the Memories of the Intifada of the First of May 1958", news articles and statements.

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The Nabeha Dalla Collection

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