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Arab women are under-represented in parliaments in Arab states, although they are gaining more equal representation as Arab states liberalise their political systems. In 2005, the International Parliamentary Union said that 6.5 per cent of MPs in the Arabic-speaking world were women, up from 3.5 per cent in 2000.
Medieval women's poetry in Arabic tends to be in two genres: the rithā’ (elegy) and ghazal (love-song), alongside a smaller body of Sufi poems and short pieces in the low-status rajaz metre. [9] One significant corpus comprises poems by qiyan , women who were slaves highly trained in the arts of entertainment, [ 10 ] often educated in the ...
Huda Sha'rawi without mantle in her office [1]. 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.
Like these Tunisian pioneers, women of the upper and middle classes across the increasingly imagined Arab world began to reap the benefits of education, and many of them began to focus on writing and joined their male counterparts in contributing to the Arab Renaissance. [26] One woman of particular significance to the awareness of the Arab ...
Salma Abdul Razzaq al-Malaika [a] (Arabic: سلمى الملائكة; c. 1908–1953) was an Iraqi poet. She wrote under the pen name Umm Nizār about women's rights and patriotism in Iraq. Her first published poem was an elegy for Iraqi poet Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi.
In 2011 an annual award for female Emirati poets was established in her name and a section in her honour was dedicated in Dubai's Women's Museum. [5] A biography of Ousha was published by Rafia Ghubash, the President of the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. [5] She was awarded with Abu Dhabi Awards for her services in 2009. [6]
There were only 16 women in a field of more than 2,000 candidates. Opinion polls conducted at the time showed that 70% of Egyptian men were opposed to the idea of women taking seats in Parliament. [6] Nevertheless, Ateya overcame the odds and received 110,807 votes in her constituency. [5]
Wadjda (Arabic: وجدة) is a 2012 Saudi Arabian drama film, written and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour. It was the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia [7] [8] [9] and the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director. [10] It won numerous awards at film festivals around the world.