Massouma al-Mubarak (born 1947) is Kuwait's first female government minister, sworn in on 20 June 2005.
[1] She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science.
She has been active in the field of equal rights for women and also writes a daily column for Al Anba newspaper.
[4] In 2002 she collected signatures on a petition opposing segregation by gender or abolishing coeducation in Kuwait.
[6] On 25 August 2007, she resigned as minister of health following a fire in a hospital in Jahra which killed two patients.