Widad Haroun Explained

Office1:	Member of the National Assembly
Term1:	1960–1961

Widad Haroun or Widad al-Azhari (Arabic: وداد الأزهري) was a Syrian lawyer and politician. In 1960, she and Jihan al-Mosli were appointed to the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic, becoming the first Syrian women to enter parliament.^[1]

Biography

Originally from Latakia,^[2] in July 1960 Haroun was appointed to the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic alongside al-Mosli.^[3] They left the Assembly when Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic in September the following year.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1529&context=wmjowl Women and the People’s Assembly In The Syrian Arab Republic
2. Esther Meininghaus (2016) Creating Consent in Ba‘thist Syria: Women and Welfare in a Totalitarian State p66
3. http://parliament.gov.sy/arabic/index.php?node=55108&nid=19957& برلمانيات سوريات... وداد أزهري .. بقلم د. نورا أريسيان