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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000028/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Farida was born in Daqhaliyya in 1940. She went to Cairo University where she graduated from the Faculty of Arts in 1962. She worked as a literary critic, journalist and writer, as well as being politically active since the 1960s. Under Nasser, she was a member of the Arab Socialist Union, where she was on the Committee of 20. At this time she was also a journalist for the Middle East News Agency. After the 1967 war, she moved away from Nasserite politics and toward the ideas of Marxism. In 1968 she joined Al-Gumhuriya newspaper. Later, in 1976, she helped found the National Progressive Unionist Party (Tagammu` Party), as well as the Women’s Progressive Union to which it was affiliated. Farida was a member of the Tagammu` central committee and later the political bureau. As a result of her party membership and opposition to Sadat's economic liberalisation and the Camp David Accords, she was arrested and sent to prison for nearly a year in 1981. After her release, she ran in the 1984 elections in Mansoura for the NPUP. It was also during this time that she became more actively involved in women's issues, seeing them as equally as important as economic issues. At the time of the interview, Farida believed that the 2011 revolution had strengthened the women’s movement in Egypt and the wider Middle East. ( en )
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- Funding : Women's Activism in the Arab World (2013-2016). This project, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, examines the significance of middle-class women's activism to the geo/politics of Arab countries, from national independence until the Arab uprisings. It was based on over 100 personal narratives of women activists of different generations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
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- Interview conducted on: 28 March 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes, 53 seconds
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- Language of interview: Arabic
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- Audio transcription by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan , info@captivatearabia.com
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- آسيا -- مصر -- القاهرة -- القاهرة
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
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- VIAF (name authority) : Naqqāsh, Farīdah : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/22312046
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2013 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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