Middle East Suffrage Timeline

	Right to Vote	Right to Stand for Election
Afghanistan	1965*	1965*
Afghanistan Notes	*Revoked during Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001.	*Revoked during Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001.
Algeria	July 5th, 1962	July 5th, 1962
Armenia	February 2nd, 1921	February 2nd, 1921
Azerbaijan	May 19th, 1921	May 19th, 1921
Bahrain	October 24th, 2002	October 24th, 2002
Comoros	1956	1956
Cyprus	August 16th, 1960	August 16th, 1960
Djibouti	1946	1986
Egypt	June 23rd, 1956	June 23rd, 1956
Eritrea	November 4th, 1955	November 4th, 1955
Iran	September 1963	September 1963
Iraq	1958*/ February 1980	1958/ February 1980
Iraq Notes	*Government “overthrown during the summer of 1958, before any elections with female participation” (p. 188).
Israel	May 15th, 1948	May 15th, 1948
Georgia	November 22nd, 1918	November 22nd, 1918
Jordan	1974*	1974*
Jordan Notes	“Women actually exercised the right to vote and stand for election for the first time in 1989” (p. 206).
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan	June 1918	June 1918
Lebanon	1952	1952
Libya	1963	1963
Mauritania	May 20th, 1961	May 20th, 1961
Morocco	May 1963	May 1963
Oman	1997	1997
Pakistan	1947	1947
Qatar	1999	1999
Saudia Arabia	2015 Municipal Elections (expected)	2015 Municipal Elections (expected)
Somalia	1956	1956
Sudan	November 1964	November 1964
Syria	September 10th, 1949*	1953
Syria Notes	“women who had reached a sixth-grade educational level; it was then extended to all literate women, and in 1953 all educational restrictions on voting were lifted for women” (p. 371).
Tajikistan	1924	1924
Tunisia	1957 (“municipal elections”)/ June 1st, 1959	June 1st, 1959
Turkey	April 3rd, 1930	December 5th, 1934
Turkmenistan	1927	1927
United Arab Emirates	2006	2006
Uzbekistan	1938	1938
Yemen	1967 (People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen)/ 1970 (Arab Republic of Yemen)	1967 (People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen)/ 1970 (Arab Republic of Yemen)

- Women Involvement in Politics in Arab Countries since 1930