Hoda Shaarawi notes (ePub)

These notes allow us to get to know a small part of a distinguished personal life in modern Egyptian history, about the circumstances of her origin, from her family, and from the Al -Safwa community to which she belonged and affected the course of her life. In addition, Hoda Shaarawi's notes illuminate us very important facts in the history of the country from political alliances and positions, so we shared Hoda its positions and its vision of the periods of separation in the national liberation movement and the struggle against foreign colonial The political and societal movement that Egypt witnessed in the first half of the twentieth century, and finally how this women's movement interacted with international women's movements, so it benefited and benefited. Hoda Shaarawi (1879-1947) is one of the pioneers of the Egyptian and Arab women movement. She is Nour Al -Huda Sultan, the daughter of Muhammad Sultan Pasha, one of the great owners in Upper Egypt and one of the leaders of the Reform Movement in the nineteenth century. Her father died at the age of five and raised under the auspices of her mother, Iqbal, who was of Circassian origin. In the year 1892, she married her cousin and the guardian of Ali Shaarawi, one of the founders of the Wafd Party who led the battle against the English occupation, and was a member of the delegation that met the British accredited on November 13, 1918 to demand the end of martial law in Egypt after the First World War. Hoda Shaarawi began her social and political activity at an early stage of life, in which her close relations with the Egyptian political elite helped her at the time. It contributed effectively to supporting the Egyptian national movement against colonialism and in institutionalizing an Egyptian and Arab women's movement, as well as the defense of women's rights at the local, regional and global levels.