Mar Gijón Mendigutía
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Mar Gijón Mendigutía | |
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 Mar Gijón Mendigutía at the presentation of the book "History of the women's movement in Palestine" (Bilbao, 2016) | |
| Born | María del Mar Gijón Mendigutía 1988 (age 37–38) |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Madrid |
| Occupations | Arabist philologist, human rights activist and writer |
| Employer | University of the Basque Country |
| Notable work | History of the women's movement in Palestine |
María del Mar Gijón Mendigutía (Madrid, 1988) is a Spanish Arabist philologist, human rights activist and writer.[1]
She specializes in the Middle East region (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan), in Palestinian history and the situation of women and women's rights in the Middle East.[2] She is also an activist for women's rights and human rights in that geopolitical region.[1]
Mar Gijón Mendigutía was born in Madrid in 1988.[3] She studied a licenciate degree in Arabic philology in the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). Later she obtained a doctorate in Arab and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2016.[4][5]
She specializes in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan) and in Palestinian history and the situation of women in the Middle East.[2][6][7][8][9] She is a member of the association Biladi.[2][10][11][12]
In 2015 she published the book History of the women's movement in Palestine (Txalaparta, Tafalla, 2015) about the situation of women in said territory.[13][14][15] For this work she was a candidate for the 2016 Euskadi Literature Prize, in the category of non-fiction.
In 2018 she was a speaker at the International Congress on Human Rights, with the conference "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and United Nations Resolution 194 (III) of 1948: Links, evolution and perspectives", on the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Palestinian issue.[16] Gijón received the ICHR Award for the Best Conference on human rights.[17]
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She is currently a university teacher and researcher at the University of the Basque Country and a member of the "Valentín de Foronda" Institute of Social History of the University of the Basque Country, the City Council of Vitoria and the Foral Council of Álava.
