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Huda Shaarawi - English
URL: http://atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu/quest/herstory/H_Shaawari.html

Women's Rights Activist

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Huda Shaarawi - English
URL: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/shaarawi.html

Huda Shaarawi was an Egyptian educator and women's rights activist. Born in Cairo in 1879, she was the daughter of a wealthy administrator. She envied her brother all the advantages he had because he was a male. Somehow, it didn't seem fair that they should be treated so differently. At age thirteen, Huda was betrothed to her much older cousin as a second wife. At first she refused to go along with the arranged marriage. Her family pressured her by insisting that refusal would bring disgrace on her father's name and the shock might kill her mother. Huda relented reluctantly. The marriage was not a happy one and Huda lived apart from her husband for several years. She reconciled with her husband when she was twenty-one. She then had two children with him.

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Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947) Egyptian nationalist and feminist - English
URL: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/huda2.html

30 of the Most Influential Women of the Millennium: Women's History Month 2001 Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947) Egyptian nationalist and feminist

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Huda Shaarawi - English
URL: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Shaarawi.html

Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947), a feminist nationalist activist, is considered by several Western scholars to be a central figure in early twentieth century Egyptian feminism. Born into a very wealthy family, Shaarawi spent her early years in the harem, an experience described in her memoirs, Harem Years.

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