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Dr. Fadia Kiwan director general of Arab Women Organization
8-5-2018
The foreign ministry announced in a statement last week that Dr. Fadia Kiwan has been elected director general of the Arab Women Organization (AWO) for the period 2018-2022, as a successor for Dr. Mirvat Tellawi, during the elections held at the Organization premises in Cairo. The appointment of Kiwan, the statement said, came at the request of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) and in coordination with the foreign ministry and the ministry of state for women’s affairs. It marks the culmination of Kiwan’s career path with AWO, noting that she has been one of the first women to accompany the inception of the organization, according to the statement. Commenting on the decision, the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian, said Kiwan shall support Lebanese women in their struggle to consolidate their rights and presence in public life. To recall, Kiwan is a political science professor and holds a doctorat d’etat in political science from the Paris 1 Sorbonne University, and a CAPES in philosophy and psychology from the Lebanese University. She is also the founder and former director of the Institute of Political Science at USJ, the representative of the President of the Republic at the Conseil Permanent de la Francophonie, a researcher and consultant at several Arab and international organizations, a member of the United Nations University Council (UNU) between 2007-2013, the president of the scientific committee of the Management of Social Transformations Program (MOST) at UNESCO headquarters, former representative of Lebanon in the executive board of AWO and a member of NCLW executive bureau. (Al Mustaqbal, An Nahar, May 4, 2018)
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