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A Woman to Know: Doria Shafiq

A Woman to Know: Doria Shafiq

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Apr 08, 2016
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No one will deliver freedom to women, except woman herself. — Doria

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Before the Arab Spring, there was Daughter of the Nile.

The literary journal, founded and managed by Doria Shafik, put women's equality on the Egyptian political agenda in the 40s and 50s. Doria produced the magazine, organized a women's rights political p…

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