Aisha Abd al-Rahman

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Aisha Abd al-Rahman

عائشة عبد الرحمن
Born18 November 1913
Damietta, Egypt, Ottoman Empire
Died1 December 1998
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian


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. 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]