Massouma al-Mubarak
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Massouma al-Mubarak (born 1947) is Kuwait's first female government minister, sworn in on 20 June 2005.{{cite news|url= http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2334|title=Women In Gulf Politics: A Progress Report|date=28 May 2005|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy}} She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4111234.stm|title=Kuwait's woman minister sworn-in|date=20 June 2005|work=BBC}}
Biography
Massouma went to the US for higher education in 1971.
In 1976 she completed an MA from the University of North Texas. She later earned a doctorate from the University of Denver.{{cite news|url= https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/Story?id=859044&page=1|title=Person of the Week: Dr. Massouma al-Mubarak|date=17 June 2005|work=ABC News}} Since 1982 she has been teaching political science at the Kuwait University.
She has been active in the field of equal rights for women and also writes a daily column for Al Anba newspaper.{{cite news |url=http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=65298&d=13&m=6&y=2005|title=Kuwait Names Woman Minister|date=13 June 2005|work=Arab News}} In 2002 she collected signatures on a petition opposing segregation by gender or abolishing coeducation in Kuwait.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-11-adfg-coeds11-story.html|title=Coeducation Nears End at Kuwait University|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=11 August 2002|author=Diana Elias}}
In June 2005, she was appointed minister of planning and minister of state for administrative development to the cabinet led by prime minister Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah.{{cite news|title=Kuwait Names First Woman Cabinet Member|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2005/06/article55271197|accessdate=23 April 2013|newspaper=Asharq Alawsat|date=13 June 2005}} On 25 August 2007, she resigned as minister of health following a fire in a hospital in Jahra which killed two patients. Parliamentarians had held the government responsible for the fire and demanded a minister should be appointed from the health sector.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL25686840|title=Kuwait health minister resigns after hospital fire|date=25 August 2007|work=Reuters}}
In the 2009 Kuwaiti parliamentary elections, she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8053088.stm|title =Kuwait votes for first female MPs|date=17 May 2009|work=BBC}}
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Category:University of Denver alumni
Category:Josef Korbel School of International Studies people
Category:Members of the National Assembly (Kuwait)
Category:21st-century women politicians
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Category:Women government ministers of Kuwait