--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American POET Ibtisam Barakat
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American POET Naomi Shihab Nye
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating Palestinian-American ARTIST Samia Halaby
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American POET Nathalie Handal
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating te GREAT Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American ARTIST Emily Jacir
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American filmmaker Annemarie Jacir
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT part-Palestinian-ALL-American NOVELIST Randa Jarrar
--->Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating a GREAT Palestinian-American POET: Suheir Hammad
March is Women’s History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.
About Women’s History Month
Before the 1970’s, the topic of women’s history was largely missing from general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978 and chose the week of March 8 to coincide with International Women’s Day.
The celebration was met with positive response, and schools began to host their own Women’s History Week programs. The next year, leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Other participants not only became determined to begin their own local Women’s History Week projects but also agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women’s History Week.
In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) cosponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution proclaiming a “Women’s History Week.”
In 1987, the National Women’s History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. Since then, the National Women’s History Month Resolution has been approved every year with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.
Information from the National Women’s History Project
About This Year's Theme
Writing Women Back into History
The overarching theme is “Writing Women Back into History.” In celebration of their 30th anniversary, the National Women’s History Project will be highlighting themes and honorees from previous years
OF HARVEST AND FLIGHT ... a poem by Deema Shehabi
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