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She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science.
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Massouma al-Mubarak
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Massouma went to the US for higher education in 1971. She has two master's degrees and a doctorate from the University of Denver. 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. In 2002 she collected signatures on a petition opposing segregation by gender or abolishing coeducation in Kuwait. 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.
On 25 August 2007, she resigned as minister of health following after a fire in a hospital in Jahra which killed two patients.
