29 Facts About Nour Hamada

Nour Hamada was born on between 1887 and 1898, died in 1962 and was a Lebanese poet and feminist.

Nour Hamada is one of the major figures that strived for feminism causes and gender equality in the Arab region.

Nour Hamada belongs to the Druze faith, and her family has many religious Druze leaders.

Nour Hamada was the daughter of "Sheikh Muhammad bin Qasim bin Husayn".

Nour Hamada was homeschooled by her father and then studied in Beirut, but it was uncertain if she studied at the American University of Beirut or Saint Joseph's University.

Nour Hamada was fluent in many languages including Arabic, French, English, and Turkish.

Nour Hamada had two siblings, a younger brother and an older one.

Nour Hamada shared her love for Arabic poetry and the Arabic language with her younger brother.

Nour Hamada's husband used to work in the Syrian military which meant she received military pensions.

Nour Hamada was essential in the organization of the Arab Women's Congress, where she personally wrote a letter to Madame Huda Shaarawi, a well-known Egyptian feminist, in which she encouraged her to rally fellow feminists to participate in such a congress.

Nour Hamada noticed the underparticipation of Muslim women present in the Damascus Congress, something she blamed on Muslim men being over-enthusiastic to silence their female counterparts.

Nour Hamada attended the Second Oriental Women's Congress, which took place in 1932 and used the resolutions that passed in 1930 as the base for their meeting.

Nour Hamada spoke highly of the Shah and Abd al-Husayn Awrang when she was in Iran.

Nour Hamada's speech was translated for the first time into a European language from its Persian original delivery at the session by Mr Haleh Emrani.

Nour Hamada was confident that she and her brother were a symbol of hope for the region and the right references for information related to the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole.

Nour Hamada applied for a Lebanese passport and a US visa and secured them both.

Nour Hamada built many connections in the US within various parties and had various connections secured from her brother.

Nour Hamada went to the US in 1933 and attended various conferences with the aim to write about the women's movement in Arabic.

Nour Hamada attended a conference called the Ninth Annual Conference of the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War in Washington, DC.

Nour Hamada continued to live in the US in a Syrian immigrant community.

Nour Hamada taught English and Arabic and continued influencing many people.

Nour Hamada overstayed her visit in the US and was ordered to leave after long struggles and various attempts to no avail.

Nour Hamada fled the country in 1937 on her own evading any violations she needed to take care off.

Nour Hamada went back to Lebanon and was only seen in Geneva in 1938 taking part in various feminist movements at the League of Nations.

Nour Hamada continued to help her family in Lebanon until she died in 1962.

The feminist appeal portrayed by Nour Hamada's group was unique as it represented a blend of greater Syrian origins and global reach.

Nour Hamada has repeatedly elaborated on her view of the evolution of her activist character based on helping women, whether they are Arab, Syrian, Asian, or Muslim.

Nour Hamada was always inclusive and aimed to express as much diversity as possible as she expounded passion alongside modern Arab feminists.

Nour Hamada recites a poem she wrote as a child, showing the early origins of her feminist thoughts.