Bint Al Nil
Editor | Doria Shafik |
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Categories | Women's magazine |
Founder | Doria Shafik |
Year founded | 1945 |
First issue | 1 November 1945 |
Final issue | 1957 |
Country | Egypt |
Based in | Cairo |
Language | Arabic |
Bint Al Nil (meaning Daughter of the Nile in English) was an Arabic language feminist magazine which was founded and edited by Doria Shafik, a well-known Egyptian woman journalist and activist, from 1945 to 1957 in Cairo, Egypt.
History and profile[]
Bint Al Nil was established by Doria Shafik in 1945.[1] A friend of her husband, Ibrahim Abdu, helped Doria Shafik in the foundation of the magazine.[2] The first issue appeared on 1 November 1945.[3] Until 1948 the magazine focused on women nature, but then began to discuss the women’s rights.[4] Following this change the magazine was accused of supporting women to quit their family roles and to enter into workplace.[5] In response to these claims Doria Shafik published an article arguing that Bint Al Nil encouraged women to look for their rights and to pay attention to family life.[5] From 1946 the magazine published a supplement entitled Al Katkut targeting children, making Bint Al Nil the first Arab magazine which offered a children's supplement.[6]
Bint Al Nil ceased publication in 1957.[2] In fact, the magazine was banned by the Egyptian authorities due to Doria Shafik's harsh criticisms over Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser accusing him being an authoritarian ruler.[7][8] In addition, the government of Nasser put Shafik under house arrest.[1][7]
In February 2018 Shiva Balagh exhibited her works in memory of Bint Al Nil and Doria Shafik's organization with the same name in Cairo.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b Sonia Dabbous (2004). "'Till I Become a Minister': Women's Rights and Women's Journalism in pre-1952 Egypt". In Naomi Sakr (ed.). Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression. London: I.B.Tauris. p. 39. doi:10.5040/9780755604838.ch-003. ISBN 978-1-85043-545-7.
- ^ a b Cynthia Nelson (2000). "Doria Shafik's French Writing: Hybridity in a Feminist Key". Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (20): 138. doi:10.2307/521944. JSTOR 521944.
- ^ Nadeen Shaker (Spring 2018). "Daughter of the Nile". The Cairo View. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "VIII. A Hardening Ideology". Doria Shafik website. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ a b Doria Shafik (October 1949). "Housewife". The American University in Cairo. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
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(help) - ^ Heidi Morrison (2015). Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 49. doi:10.1057/9781137432780. ISBN 978-1-349-55571-0.
- ^ a b Jason Lemon (14 December 2016). "Doria Shafik, the woman in today's Google Doodle, helped win Egyptian women's right to vote". Step Feed. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Sarah Ansari (2009). "Polygamy, Purdah and Political Representation: Engendering citizenship in 1950s Pakistan". Modern Asian Studies. 43 (6): 1423. doi:10.1017/S0026749X08003776. S2CID 145286191.
- ^ "Sherin Guirguis, "Bint Al Nil/Daughter of the Nile"". Sherin Guirguis Studio. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
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