Hatoon al-Fassi

Who is Hatoon al-Fassi?

Dr. Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi is a women's rights activist and an assistant professor of women's history at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, where she has been employed since 1989. At the university, al-Fassi carries out historical research. Al-Fassi claims from her research into the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea that women in the kingdom had more independence than women in modern Saudi Arabia. Al-Fassi was active in women's right to vote campaigns for the 2005 Saudi Arabian municipal elections and is active in a similar campaign for the 2011 municipal elections.