Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist by Khālidī ʻAnbarah Salām. Khalidi Tarif

Author:Khālidī, ʻAnbarah Salām.,Khalidi, Tarif. [Khalidi, Tarif]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849648837
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

He continues:

He was his country’s protector,

He was a burning flame.

He was a champion of women,

He increased them in perfection and power.

He pitied their condition, he showed them kindness,

And they cry for him with pearly tears.

I then received an invitation to this other memorial service to speak in the name of young Arab women. So I sat, fully and heavily veiled, among the various speakers on the platform and then delivered my speech. Cruel indeed was the storm of criticism we heard afterwards. We were accused of violating the rules of religion and morality. It reached me that one man, talking to his friends, was heard to say, “What a shame! How can her father accept that his daughter should stand and deliver a speech before a meeting full of men? I swear to God, all I wanted was to fire a gun at her and rid the world of her.” These were the criticisms we had to suffer, whatever the occasion might be.

At the end of that memorial service there was an amusing incident. Standing up to deliver a word of thanks on behalf of the family was the well-known scholar Jamil Bayhum. Referring to the man being honored he said, among other things, “If a lord amongst us dies another lord rises in his stead.” [a quote from a classical poem]. The audience clearly did not like that statement and counted it as boasting. So another family member, the late Hasan Bayhum, sprang up to amend that quotation and said, “If a servant amongst us dies, another servant rises in his stead.”

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