Wafa Albueise
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Wafa Albueise | |
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 Wafa Albueise, The Munathara Initiative, Nov 2014. | |
| Born | August 12, 1973 Benghazi |
| Alma mater | Benghazi University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Wafa Albueise (born August 12, 1973, Benghazi) is a Libyan lawyer and writer.
Wafa Albueise's family originated in a small village known as Abu-Essa at Zawia secondary education in Benghazi. Then, she studied law at Benghazi University. In 1996, she was granted a BA in Law. Then she obtained an MA in Criminal Law in 2003. The title of her thesis was The Notion of Potentiality and its Applications in Criminal law.
Career
Between 1998 and 2008, she worked as a lawyer handling cases of civil law, commercial law, personal status and criminal issues. After completing training as a practitioner in the office of Mr. Salih Musa Al-Bar’asi, she started working independently. She also worked in Benghazi for one year as a lecturer in commercial law at the Higher Institute of Administrative and Financial Matters. Lately, she switched to literary writing as a profession and authored a number of controversial novels. One of these novels was published in Libya, titled liljuu’i wujuuhin Ukhraa (Hunger has Other Faces).
As a result of publishing this novel, she was accused of infidelity and subjected to a wide campaign of remonstrance by the ministry entrusted with supervision of religious and spiritual matters and by a number of imams (prayer leaders) at mosques in Benghazi as well as subjection to serious grievances during the rule of colonel "Muammar al-Gaddafi". This has obliged her to leave her homeland and apply for political asylum in Netherlands in 2008.
There, she volunteered to provide social consultations and help to Arab women refugees in Netherlands under the supervision of VluchtelingenWork Overijssel AZC Almelo at Almelo city. Since, she got married and still living in Netherlands.
