Amatalrauf "Raufa Hassan" al-Sharki (Arabic: رؤوفة حسن; 1958 – April 27, 2011) was an educator, feminist[1] and human rights activist from Yemen.

Al-Kurshmi was impressed with their initiative and allowed them to attend school with boys, marking the first time co-education was permitted in Yemen.

[6] Al-Sharki also began working in radio when she was twelve, and this is when she changed her name from Amatalrauf to Raufa Hassan in order to disguise her identity.

[5] While in high school, she was also part of the Yemeni Women's Association (YWA), until it was shut down by religious conservatives in 1973.

[5] Al-Sharki founded the Empirical Research and Women's Study Center (ERWS) at Sana'a University in 1996.

[9] One of her goals was to help "women learn how to vote independently" and she once had the support of the Islamist Party in Yemen, Islah.

[10] Another problem women faced, according to al-Sharki, was that many political decisions continued to be made by men in a patriarchal tribal system.

[19] One of her projects archived dress codes and information about what political leaders in Yemen wore throughout history.