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Siham Muhammad Abd al-Salam al-Barghouthi is a Palestinian who served as Minister of Culture in the second and third governments of Salam Fayyad from May 19, 2009 until June 6, 2013.
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Siham Barghouti was born in Hebron in 1948. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting Department, from Alexandria University in Egypt in 1970. She joined the ranks of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1975 and worked in the mass activities of the Palestine Liberation Organization. She was one of the founders of the first mass mobilization framework, the Women's Action Committees, to integrate women into the struggle. She was one of the founders of the Palestinian Democratic Union - FIDA and served as Deputy Secretary of the FIDA party.
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