Huda Sharawi — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Huda Sharawi by Jennifer Jaffer: founder of the women's movement in Egypt, who established the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923 and removed her face veil at a Cairo train station in March of that year.

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