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On April de 2017, during a meeting of the Negative Phenomena Committee, MP Mohammed Hayef, chairman of the committee, refused to sit next to her since she was wearing perfume, arguing that Sharia dictates that a man cannot “sit next to a woman who wears perfume”, and adding that “The laws and principles of the sharia are immutable. We cannot change them just because there is a new age or a new ideology. Allah says (to women) in the Quran: ‘And stay in your homes and do not display your allurements.'”.

Al Hashem first stood for elections for 3rd Constituency in 2012 and won. After this parliament was annulled, she stood again from the same constituency and won again. In the 2012 assembly, she served as the rapporteur of the Economic and Financial Affairs committee, and was a member of the Response to the Amiri Addrss and Foreign Affairs committees.

Al Hashem obtained a degree in English literature from Kuwait University and completed her MBA from the Pennsylvania State University. She also has a post graduate executive education diploma from Harvard Business School. In 2011, she was awarded a Ph.D, Doctorate (Honoris causa) by the American University of Technology.

Safa Al Hashem (born 1964), is a politician who is an elected Member of Parliament, and the only woman currently elected to the Kuwait Parliament. She is the only female member to be elected to the Kuwait parliament consecutively, after women re-gained the right to vote and stand for office in 2005.