Seventy Years of Palestinian Women's Resistance
Sobhia Krayem I would like to introduce you to one of the faces of the Palestinian women’s struggle, the beautiful ambassador of Palestinian heritage, Sobhia Krayem. Her family are originally from Saffuriyya in the District of Nazareth, but she was born in Lebanon 70 years ago, a few years after her family were forcibly expelled from Palestine by the Zionist occupation forces during the Nakbah. She is a strong woman who has fought and suffered due to the daily rules of the patriarchal society, the forced Palestinian displacement, the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982, racism and the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian Embroidery However, this did not prevent her from retraining and carrying out various activities. After the Israelis invaded Lebanon, there was a time where she with her husband hosted a big number of people from all different nationalities and religions and provided them a shelter and flour to cook, one of the people who came for shelter, was Naji Al-Ali the Palestinian ...