Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi

Author:Fatima Mernissi
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2008-07-12T23:38:00+00:00

But the most successful pioneering champion of women's rights, as far as the terrace audience was concerned, was Huda Sha`raoui, an aristocratic Egyptian beauty, born in 1879, who bewitched Egypt's rulers with ardent speeches and popular street marches. Her life provided ample opportunity for everyone on the terrace, including us children, to get up on stage and chant nationalist military hymns. You needed actors to play the Egyptian protesters, actors to play the British police, and of course actors to play the bystanders.

Forced into an early marriage at age 13, Huda fascinated Chama because she was able to transform a whole society in just a few decades by sheer stubborn will. Huda managed to do two seemingly contradictory things at the same time - fight the British occupation and end her own traditional seclusion and confinement. She tossed away her veil when she led the first official. women's street march against the British in Igig, and influenced legislators to pass numerous important laws, including one in 11924 which raised the legal marriage age for girls to i6. She also was so utterly disgusted by the newly independent Egyptian state, formed in 1922, when they passed the Constitution Of 1923 restricting the vote to males, that she created the Egyptian Feminist Union and successfully fought for a woman's right to vote.3 Huda Sharaoui's stubborn insistence on women's rights inspired many other newly independent Arab nations, already attracted to the nationalist ideals, to include a woman's right to vote in their new constitutions as well.

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