Anissa Najjar

Overview

Anissa Najjar (née Rawda) born Beirut, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire June 13, 1913 (d. 2016). Druze social worker and headmistress; vice president international WILPF 1977; active in independence movement 1943-4; founding head Village Welfare Society, the first in the Middle East 1953; founding president WILPF chapter Lebanese Committee for Peace and Freedom (LCPF) 1961; delegate to women’s conferences Cairo, Nairobi, Beijing.

Quotations

“Peace begins at home—peace begins with the mothers who bring up the children. Women are good mothers when they are peaceful—when they teach and educate their children through their practices. This has been my philosophy, my life-long Literacy of the Mind-project.” (June 2008, WILPF final report on Lebanon, p. 50; photo druzeworldwide.com)