Abd al-Hadi, Tarab
ABD AL-HADI, TARAB
political activist in palestine in the first half of the twentieth century.
Tarab Abd al-Hadi (birth and death dates unknown) was a member of the Arab Women's Executive Committee (AWE), which convened the first Palestine Arab Women's Congress in Jerusalem in 1929. She was married to Awni Abd al-Hadi, who was a prominent Palestinian nationalist during the mandate period, and active in the Istiqlal Party, among other organizations. In 1933, after Matiel Mughannam, who was Christian, delivered a speech in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem during protests of the visit of Lord Edmund Allenby, Abd al-Hadi, a Muslim, delivered a speech before Christ's tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Abd al-Hadi was also a member of the Palestinian delegation attending the Eastern Women's Conference on the Palestine Problem convened in Cairo in 1938. She delivered a speech at that conference and at the subsequent Arab Women's Conference, held in Cairo in 1944.
see also adb al-hadi family.
Bibliography
Mogannam, Matiel E. T. The Arab Woman and the Palestine Problem. London: Herbert Joseph, 1937.
Ellen Fleischman