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Fadwa Al-Barghouti (Umm Al-Qassam) (born 15 May 1963) is a Palestinian lawyer and member of the Fatah council. The wife of politician Marwan Barghouti, who is currently held in Israeli prison for murder, she holds a master's degree in law in 2003 from Al-Quds University, and holds a bachelor's degree in law from Beirut University in 1997.
Sat 29 Apr 2017 19.05 EDT. Not long before Marwan Barghouti, the imprisoned leader of Fatah, called the largest hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in recent years, his wife, Fadwa, and...
Aug 1, 2023 · Aug 1, 2023. The wife of senior Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa, has met in recent weeks with senior figures from around the Arab world, and with diplomatic actors in the U.S. and Europe, asking them to act to obtain her husband’s release from Israeli prison. Sources close to Barghouti confirmed that the series of meetings held by Fadwa ...
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Fadwa and Marwan grew up together in the village of Kobar, outside of Ramallah city. Fadwa’s family was one of few in the village where their daughter continued her education in the city past the sixth grade, and she was the first woman in her village to obtain a driver’s license. At the age of 18, she became the youngest founding member of the Wom...
Fadwa was 20 when she accepted Marwan’s proposal, and her life quickly became intertwined with the Palestinian resistance movement. In 1987, Marwan was exiled to Jordanduring the first Intifada, after he became a major leader in the uprising. Fadwa and her two children followed him, and the family resided in exile for seven years. She returned to P...
Eighteen days before Marwan’s most recent imprisonment, Fadwa met her husband secretly in a garden near Ramallah city. Marwan had brought her there to warn her of his inevitable imprisonment or possible death. “He told me that he would go into hiding and that he would be unable to contact me,” Fadwa said. Marwan then began to tell Fadwa his will. O...
Earlier this year, Marwan led a mass hunger strike among Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, which at its peak included upwards of 1,600 prisoners from various political parties. The strike lasted for more than 40 days, the longestin Palestine’s history, and demanded humanitarian reforms in Israel’s prison system. Fadwa’s last visit with Marwan w...
Mar 7, 2024 · “I am optimistic,” Fadwa Barghouti, his wife, said Tuesday in Ramallah, the administrative capital of the West Bank, with a smile and without offering any further assessment. The leader of...
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Apr 1, 2021 · Barghouti, 61, a former Fatah militant commander, is serving five life sentences in Israel following a 2004 terrorism conviction. But he remains a popular and charismatic leader, and by...
Feb 15, 2024 · 15 Feb 2024. Marwan Barghouti’s supporters call him the Palestinian Mandela. Like the South African leader who was imprisoned by the apartheid regime for 28 years, the Fatah politician has...
