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Marie Ajami & Al-Arous Magazine

Eastern Women's Congress for the Defense of Palestine

Marie Ajami & Al-Arous Magazine

Eastern Women's Congress for the Defense of Palestine

Marie Ajami & Al-Arous Magazine

Eastern Women's Congress for the Defense of Palestine

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Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History

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Noor Magazine, issue 17, Spring 2001: “The Iraqi Woman confronting the siege”, front cover and table of contents

Photos from the 1938 Eastern Women’s Congress for the Defence of Palestine. Found in the conference proceedings published by the Egyptian Feminist Union. Check out the full exhibit on our website for more: www.nasawiyyah.com

Front cover of “Kathima” women’s magazine, Volume 1 issue 1 July 1948, Kuwait, printed by Al-Maarif Publishing House.

Excerpt from “A Letter to Europe” by Radwa Ashour. Cairo, September 1, 2003.  

Translation: “I write this message in the Arabic tongue (here you are reading a translation from the original Arabic), an ancient and modern tongue that

Members of the Arab Women’s Organization in Damascus, 1932.

Image: Palestinian Women’s Delegation protesting in front of the British High Commissioner’s House, 1929. In the middle, wearing a white hat and a scarf, is Matiel Mogannam, author of groundbreaking English-language book “The Arab W

From MRA Magazine: Documents from and about Arab Women, 1974.

Mahia Jarjara ماهية محمد عمر جرجرة founder of the first feminist magazine in Yemen and Arabian Penninsula titled “Fatat Shimsan” in 1960.

The first issue of the magazine proclaims that:
وعمر الصحافة في العالم لا يتجاوز نصف القرن فقبل ذل

Wisal Moussa Hassan, the First Professional Camerawoman in Sudan and the Arab Region. The New Hawa’ Magazine, Issue 33, 18 November 1969, Found in National Records Office. 

When asked what is the significance of the Hawaa’ Al-Jadida