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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Sanaa Samir Hussein Abdullah Al-Sarghali (born February 2, 1987)
is the first Palestinian woman to obtain a PhD in constitutional law in the
State of Palestine. She is a Palestinian researcher in the field of law and
constitution, and a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law at
An-Najah National University, and the founder and director of the Center for
Studies. constitutionalism at An-Najah University, holds the position of UNESCO
Chair for Democracy, Human Rights and Peace, and is the first Palestinian woman
on the Palestinian Constitution Drafting Committee, where she was appointed by
the Palestinian National Council in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Its upbringing and educational attainment
Sanaa Samir Hussein Abdullah Al-Sarghali was born in the city of
Tulkarm on February 2, 1987. Her maternal grandmother is a Jewish immigrant
from Poland. She married her Palestinian grandfather in 1937 in Jerusalem.
After their marriage, her grandmother converted to Islam and lived in Tulkarm.
Sanaa completed her secondary education at Al-Adawiya Secondary School for
Girls in the city. In 2005, she enrolled at An-Najah National University in
Nablus, graduating in 2009 with a law degree. In the same year (2009) she
joined Durham University in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, to graduate in
2010 with a master's degree in law, and in 2011 she joined Lancaster University
to complete her doctoral study in constitutional law, thus becoming the first
Palestinian woman to obtain a doctorate in constitutional law And to be the first
Palestinian and Arab woman to be awarded the Excellence Award from a British
university.
Her published works
Sanaa alsarghali is a google scholar
Palestine and the State of Exception.
The state of exception in the Middle East and North Africa
region.
Palestine Report 2019.
Sectarianism and constitutional identity.
The constitution we desire? A woman's point of view - from a
female perspective.
The State, Democracy, and Women's Rights in Palestine: Same
Means for the Same End?
Palestine and the State of Exception: A Solution or an
Indispensable Need? (Palestine and the State of Exception).
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