Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi (هتون أجواد الفاسي) is a women's rights activist[3] and an associate professor of women's history at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia,[2] where she has been employed since 1989 and at the International Affairs Department at Qatar University.[1] At the university, al-Fassi carries out historical research. Al-Fassi claims from her research into the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea that women in the kingdom had more independence than women in modern Saudi Arabia.[4] Al-Fassi was active in women's right to vote campaigns for the 2005[3][5] and 2011 municipal elections[6][7][8] and was active in a similar campaign for the 2015 municipal elections.[9] She was arrested in late June 2018[10] as part of a crackdown on women's activists[11] and was released in early May 2019.[12]