Naima al-Said

Naima al-Said, was an Iraqi women's rights activist.^[1] She belonged to the pioneer generation of the first organized women's movement in Iraq.

Naima al-Said was married to Prime Minister Nuri al-Said.

In 1923 she was one of the group of sixty elite women to became one of the co-founders of the first women's organization in Iraq, the Women's Awakening Club, and served as its vice president.^[2] The Women's Awakening Club campaigned against seclusion and for women's education and professional life. Naima al-Said stated:

"It is clear that a nation cannot achieve progress unless men and women cooperate, and women can not help men unless they are educated... Some people i the east mistakenly consider women to be incapable of undertaking any useful projects... I hope we can prove by the success of this Club the fallacy of such thinking."^[3]