Summary
A Jerusalemite who founded Dar al-Tifel al-Arabi in 1948, in Nada Elia’s account in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, after the fifty-five children orphaned at Deir Yassin were paraded in Jerusalem and abandoned; she cared for them and thousands more children until her death in 1994 (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1567-1585).
Details
- She first housed the children in two rooms in a nearby market, then a convent, then her own family home, a mansion built by her grandfather in Sheikh Jarrah, and purchased two additional buildings (lines 1567-1575).
- Dar al-Tifel now boards three hundred children, accepting only girls, orphaned or from impoverished families; its stated goals, quoted in the chapter, include preserving Arab and Palestinian heritage and culture (lines 1575-1585).
- She also established a school for social work and a women’s college, later transferred to al-Quds University, and a museum and cultural center (lines 1575-1585).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Nada Elia, Deir Yassin, First Intifada