Widad Haroun or Widad al-Azhari () 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 woman to enter parliament.Women and the People’s Assembly In The Syrian Arab Republic
Biography Originally from Latakia,Esther Meininghaus (2016) Creating Consent in Ba‘thist Syria: Women and Welfare in a Totalitarian State p66 in July 1960 Haroun was appointed to the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic alongside al-Mosli.برلمانيات سوريات... وداد أزهري .. بقلم د. نورا أريسيان Parliament of Syria They left the Assembly when Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic in September the following year.
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