{"id":67494,"date":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=f2c9e9525b17998e214fe30af608f27c"},"modified":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"nccal-mourns-aziza-al-bassam-for-key-social-cultural-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/nccal-mourns-aziza-al-bassam-for-key-social-cultural-role\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCAL mourns Aziza al-Bassam for key social, cultural role"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) mourned Monday Aziza al-Bassam, who had an outstanding role in empowering women in cultural, social and educational actions.<\/P>
The deceased was the founder of the first public library for women in the State of Kuwait.<\/P>
In a press statement, Acting NCCAL secretary general Issa al-Ansari pointed to al-Bassam’s books and documentation of the crimes of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as well as the establishment of libraries locally.<\/P>
She also had an active role in organizing the women’s conference by the Women’s Cultural and Social Society in 1975<\/P>
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Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/P>
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The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) mourned Monday Aziza al-Bassam, who had an outstanding role in empowering women in cultural, social and educational actions.The deceased was the founder of the first public library for women i…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n