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Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas -- Biography

Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas is an internationally respected political feminist thinker and advocate for a viable Palestinian state. She is the Director of the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling, former Chair of the Jerusalem Legal Aid Center, a founding Board Member of the Jerusalem Center for Women of the Jerusalem Link, and a board member of Equality Now. She is a recipient of the 2002 Ms. Woman of the Year award.

Shamas works at both the local and national level to ensure the protection and provision of services to women as they are personally and politically impacted by life under occupation, and is well known in the international arena as a promoter of joint political dialogue and anti-occupation resistance with the Israeli women of the Jerusalem Link. She is also one of the drafters of the International Women's Commission for a Just Peace.