Hatoon al-Fassi

Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
هتون أجواد الفاسي
Born1964[1]
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia[1]
NationalitySaudi Arabian[1]
OccupationAssistant professor[2]

Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi (هتون أجواد الفاسي) is a Saudi Arabian historian, author[3][4] and women's rights activist.[5] She is an associate professor of women's history at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia,[2] where she has been employed since 1989 and at the International Affairs Department at Qatar University.[1] At the university, al-Fassi carries out historical research. Based on her research into the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea, al-Fassi claims that women in the ancient kingdom had more independence than women in modern Saudi Arabia.[6] Al-Fassi was active in women's right to vote campaigns for the 2005[5][7] and 2011 municipal elections[8][9][10] and was active in a similar campaign for the 2015 municipal elections.[11] She was arrested in late June 2018[12] as part of a crackdown on women's rights activists[13] and was released almost a year later, in early May 2019.[14]

In November 2018, while still in jail, she was awarded the MESA Academic Freedom Award for 2018.[15][16]

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  3. ^ Sherifa Zuhur (31 October 2011). Saudi Arabia. ABC-CLIO. pp. XIV. ISBN 978-1-59884-571-6.
  4. ^ John L. Esposito; Dalia Mogahed (2007). Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Simon and Schuster. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-59562-017-0.
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  14. ^ Saudi authorities temporarily release four female activists, Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, May 2, 2019
  15. ^ Middle East Scholars Give Academic Freedom Award to Saudi Scholar, Writer, and Women’s Rights Advocate, Dr. Hatoon Ajwad Al Fassi, November 17, 2018, MESA
  16. ^ Saudi Arabia: Detained Women Reported Tortured, Alleged Electric Shocks, Whippings by Masked Interrogators, November 20, 2018, HRW