Iraqi Women's League

The Iraqi Women's League was an Iraqi women's organization founded in the 1950s.

This article is about the women's organization. For the football competition, see Iraqi Women's Football League.

Saddam Hussein's 1979 rise to power resulted in a crackdown on members of the League, which was forced underground. The novelist Iqbal al-Qazwini, in East Berlin as the League's delegate to the Women's International Democratic Federation in 1978, remained in exile there.[1]

After Saddam's removal, league membership rose again: by August 2003 it had risen to five hundred women, though many of the younger members lacked organizational experience.[1]

References
  1. Iqbal Al-Qazwini. Zubaida's Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp. 124–5. ISBN 978-1-55861-745-2.


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