Bahiya al-Hariri: The first woman to be appointed Minister of Education and Higher Education

Date of Mouvement: 
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

Bahiya al-Hariri was the first woman to become the Minister of Education and Higher Education. Al-Hariri was also among the first women to win seats in the Parliament from 1992 to 2009. During her terms at the Parliament, she was a member of the Parliamentary Child Committee and the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs.(1)Musleh al-Habahibah, وجوه نسائية من لبنان, Lebanon, 1998, p. 9..

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