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Huda Sha'rawi
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Egyptian feminist and nationalist (1879–1947)
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Huda
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Place of birth
- Minya
- Place of death
- Cairo
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Islam
- Award
- Order of the Virtues
- Field of work
- social movement
- Image
- Huda Sha'arawi2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hoda Shaarawi
- date of death
- 1947-12-12
- date of birth
- 1879-01-01
- name in native language
- هدى شعراوي ede
- member of
- Egyptian Feminist Union
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Encyclopedic overview
Huda Sha'rawi in her office, not wearing hijab
Huda Sha'arawi or Hoda Sha'rawi (Arabic: هدى شعراوي, ALA-LC: Hudá Sha‘rāwī; 23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947) was a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragette, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huda Sha'rawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.