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Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist A Woman Apart CYNTHIA NELSON The American University in Cairo Press First published in Egypt in 1996 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini Cairo, Egypt This edition published by arrangement with University of Press of Florida Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Second printing 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. DarelKutubNo.8271/96 ISBN 977 424 413 3 Frontispiece: Doria Shafik, 1952 Printed in Egypt To Aziza and Jehane in memory of their mother This page intentionally left blank Action de Grace Thanksgiving Je rends grace I render thanks a Dieu unto God d'avoir vu le jour to have been born au pays des mysteres. in the land of mysteries, d'avoir grandi to have grown up a I'ombre in the shadow des palmiers, f the palms O d'avoir vecu to have lived dans les bras within the arms du desert f the desert O gardien des secrets . . . guardian of secrets . . . d'avoir vu to have seen I'eclat the brilliance du disque solaire, of the solar disk et d'avoir bu and to have drunk enfant as a child eaux du Nil from the Nile fleuve beni. sacred river. —Doria Shafik, Larmes d'Isis This page intentionally left blank To Aziza and Jehane in memory of their mother CONTENTS Preface xi Chronology xxi The Awakening (1908-1928) 1. Between Two Poles 3 The Turning Point (1928-1944) 2. To Want and to Dare (1928-1932) 33 3. In Search of Love (1932-1936) 53 4. Return to the City of Light (1936-1939) 70 5. A Stranger in Her Own Land (1939-1942) 91 6. The Turning Point (1942-1944) 105 The Struggle (1945-1954) 7. Into the Limelight (1945-1947) 119 8. Carrying the Banner (1948-1950) 142 9. Storming the Parliament (1951) 168 10. A False Dream (1952-1954) 178 11. Divergent Paths (1954) 193 Pursuing the Absolute (1954-1957) 12. Flight around the World (1954-1955) 211 13. The Beginning of the End (1955-1957) 225 14. A Woman Alone (1957) 238 Solitude (1957-1975) 15. The Interior Life 253 16. Life as a Work of Art 275 Notes 285 Bibliography 306 Index 311
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