"Eager to be more active in public affairs, Doria began searching for an outlet and in 1945... was offered the position of editor-in-chief of a new magazine... founded by Princess Chewikar... '. ...[S]he was not altogether happy in that milieu and became sensitive to popular criticism that she must be in the pay of foreign powers since she was writing ...in French. ...[S]he decided to launch her own Arabic-language magazine, Bint-al-Nil, through which she continued to champion the equal rights of women. Finally, signalling her impatience with the... complacency of the government toward women's political and legal rights, Doria Shafik took the decisive step in March 1948 of establishing her Bint-al-Nil Union on behalf of the complete emancipation of Egyptian women."
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Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) ed., Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron.
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Doria Shafik
(14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. As a direct result of her efforts, Egyptian women were granted the right to vote by the Egyptian constitution.
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