A public meeting with MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) will be held in Dublin on Tuesday, 9 August at 6 pm, on the subject of the “Struggle within Israeli Society.” The meeting is being organized by the Communist Party of Ireland (Páirtí Cumannach na Ėireann) and will take place at Connolly Books in the James Connolly House, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Photo: Al-Ittihad)

MK Touma-Sliman was born in Nazareth. In 1992 she founded the Arab feminist group Women against Violence, and has been its CEO ever since. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), she served for a number of years as editor of Al-Ittihad, the party’s Arabic language daily newspaper. Touma-Sliman was also selected to be the first female member of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel. She also co-founded the International Women’s Commission for a Just Palestinian-Israeli Peace. Touma-Sliman has been a member of the Israeli Knesset since 2015 and is the chairwomen of the parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality.