SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Huda Sha'arawi has received more than 269,867 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Huda Sha'arawi is the 184th most popular social activist (down from 145th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 209th 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 184 out of 840. Before her are Emmett Till, Yelena Bonner, Jan Karski, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Leopold Trepper, and Kailash Satyarthi. After her are Edward Snowden, Abbé Pierre, Salvador Puig Antich, Kang Pan-sok, Manuela Sáenz, and Kartini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 51. Before her are Wanda Landowska, Boris Savinkov, Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, Ethel Barrymore, and Max Schreck. After her are Bedřich Hrozný, Edward Steichen, Kartini, Max Emmerich, Hisaichi Terauchi, and Alfred Korzybski. Among people deceased in 1947, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 57. Before her are Franz Böhme, Victor Serge, Dorothea Binz, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Gusztáv Jány, and Franz Ritter von Epp. After her are Slavko Kvaternik, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Alfredo Casella, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Franz Xaver Schwarz, and Charles Bally.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Huda Sha'arawi ranks 240 out of 642. Before her are An-Nasir Muhammad (1285), Pope Peter I of Alexandria (300), Tjuyu (-1401), Omar Suleiman (1936), Neferure (-1500), and Shoshenq II (-1000). After her are Al-Said Barakah (1260), Osorkon II (-1000), Nahshon (null), Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep (-1800), Neferkare II (-2150), and Solamish (1272).

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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), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Sarah Hegazi (1989), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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