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Al-Ahram Weekly 9 - 15 March 2000 Issue No. 472 
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Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 |
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Al-Ahram Weekly 9 - 15 March 2000 Issue No. 472
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On the occasion of Women's Day, Al-Ahram Weekly wonders whether early 20th-century activists were not more radical than their third-millennium counterparts Fair and square
To mark Women's Day on 8 March, UNESCO has suggested that newspapers the world over place women at the helm for 24 hours. In Egypt, most of the press has dismissed this recommendation as a joke; but, writes Fayza Hassan, less than a century ago a woman member of parliament was also considered an incongruity'I remember my sister...
'In the 21 December 1949 issue of Al-Musawwar magazine, on the 30th anniversary of Malak Hefni Nassef's death, her brother Magdeddin remembered Egypt's first female poet and novelist, better known by her nom de plume, Bahithat Al-Badia. To mark Women's Day, Al-Ahram Weekly offers a translation of the article
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