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Aisha Abd al-Rahman عائشة عبد الرحمن | |
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| Born | 18 November 1913 Damietta, Egypt, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1 December 1998 Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
Aisha Abd al-Rahman (18 November 1913 – 1 December 1998) was an Egyptian author who participated in the 1957 Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Conference.[1]
Early life
Abd al-Rahman was born in 1913 in a prominent religious family. She could not go to school but was allowed to take correspondence classes and earned a teacher's qualification in 1929. She enrolled in King Faud I University.[1]
Political views
In university, Abd al-Rahman wrote for the newspaper Al-Ahram and criticized the monarchy. She criticized national liberation movements that failed to liberate women.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Cairo' (pp. 53–54). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]