WRITER

Doria Shafik

1908 - 1975

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Doria Shafik (Arabic: درية شفيق‎; 14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Doria Shafik has received more than 116,623 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Doria Shafik is the 3,460th most popular writer (down from 3,419th in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 399th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 51.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La femme et le droit religieux de l'Égypte contemporaine
Legal status, laws, Women, Women in the Koran
1940
L' art pour l'art dans l'Égypte antique ..
Antiquities, Egyptian Art
1940

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Doria Shafik ranks 3,460 out of 7,302. Before her are Zora Neale Hurston, Frédéric Dard, Nemesianus, Akazome Emon, Peter Straub, and Mercedes de Acosta. After her are Bell hooks, Laurence Oliphant, Gioconda Belli, Carl Robert Jakobson, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, and H.D..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Doria Shafik ranks 189. Before her are Thurgood Marshall, Boris Polevoy, Ștefan Barbu, Jean Effel, Edoardo Amaldi, and Arthur O'Connell. After her are Elliott Carter, Krystyna Skarbek, Erik Lundqvist, Sucheta Kriplani, Jacques Herbrand, and Artem Alikhanian. Among people deceased in 1975, Doria Shafik ranks 126. Before her are Anthony McAuliffe, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Georges Carpentier, Andrés Mazali, S. D. Burman, and Barbara Hepworth. After her are Max Lorenz, Richard Ratsimandrava, Louis Van Hege, Clyde Tolson, Gaston Gallimard, and Friedrich Sämisch.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Doria Shafik ranks 436 out of 642. Before her are Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (1893), Pope Maximus of Alexandria (250), Riccardo Freda (1909), Naguib Sawiris (1954), Domitius Domitianus (300), and Taheyya Kariokka (1915). After her are Al-Ashraf Sha'ban (1353), Bat Ye'or (1933), Majida El Roumi (1956), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Zakaria Mohieddin (1918), and Al-Mansur Abu Bakr (1321).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Doria Shafik ranks 43. Before her are Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), C. S. Forester (1899), André Aciman (1951), and Malak Hifni Nasif (1886). After her are Bat Ye'or (1933), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Yusuf Idris (1927), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), Aisha Taymur (1840), and Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889).

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