Mounira Solh

Mounira Solh
Solh in Beirut, 1974
Born(1911-09-19)19 September 1911
Died27 November 2010(2010-11-27) (aged 99)
Alma materLebanese American University
OccupationsFounder, Al Amal Institute for the Disabled
SpouseWaheed el Solh
ChildrenSana Solh

Mounira Solh (Arabic: منيرة صلح; 19 September 1911 – 27 November 2010) was a pioneer advocate of women's and disabled people's rights in Lebanon. She was one of the earliest female candidates to run for parliament in Lebanon and the Middle East. She ran for a seat in the Parliament of Lebanon in 1960, 1964 and 1968. She was also a humanitarian with several decades of volunteer and charity work.

Mounira Solh founded Al Amal Institute for the Disabled, which was the first of its kind in the Arab world and in Lebanon in 1959. The first of its kind in Lebanon, the Association of the Parents of Mentally Disabled Children, was also established by Solh in 1984.