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Huda Sha'arawi

1879 - 1947

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Huda Sha'arawi or Hoda Sha'rawi (Arabic: هدى شعراوي, ALA-LC: Hudá Sha‘rāwī; 23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947) was a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragette, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Huda Sha'arawi is the 216th most popular social activist (down from 185th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 240th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

Huda Sha'arawi was most famous for being the first woman to remove her veil in public.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 216 out of 840. Before her are Viktors Arājs, Jacques Roux, Nayirah testimony, Moses Montefiore, Chen Sheng, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. After her are Fred Phelps, Kittur Chennamma, Czesława Kwoka, Christoph Probst, Stjepan Filipović, and Ludolf von Alvensleben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 63. Before her are Kartini, Edward Steichen, Vladko Maček, Johan Nygaardsvold, Billy Mitchell, and Jane Darwell. After her are William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Agrippina Vaganova, Samuel Goldwyn, Ethel Barrymore, and Frederick Schule. Among people deceased in 1947, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 71. Before her are Ananda Coomaraswamy, Slavko Kvaternik, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Ludwig Fischer, and Friedrich Paschen. After her are Lucjan Żeligowski, Archduchess Louise of Austria, W. I. Thomas, Karol Świerczewski, Charles Bally, and Lilly Reich.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 284 out of 642. Before her are Al-Musta'in (1390), Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Bakenranef (-700), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Samir Amin (1931), and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928). After her are Syrianus (400), Olympiodorus the Younger (495), Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929), John Tristan, Count of Valois (1250), Hassan Fathy (1900), and Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (1096).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 3. Before her are Hassan al-Banna (1906), and Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927). After her are Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Maggie Gobran (1949), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Sarah Hegazi (1989), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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