Mahia Nagib

Mahia Nagib was a journalist and editor in Aden, Yemen. She founded Fatat Shamsan [The Maiden of Mount Shamsan] in 1960, making her Aden's first female editor of a women's monthly magazine.[1]

In the 1950s, Nagib edited the women's column of the weekly newspaper al-Nahda. When she founded Fatat Shamsan, it was the first women's journal in the Arabian Peninsula. Her opening editorial emphasised the importance of women's journalism in pressing for women's rights:

Women's journalism in sister Arab countries contributed greatly in pressuring their governments to grant the woman her rights, open schools and universities for her, and provide her with the opportunity to make a living.[2]

References
  1. Susanne Dahlgren (2010). Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen. Syracuse University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8156-5093-5.
  2. Amel Nejib al-Ashtal (2012). "A Long, Quiet, and Steady Struggle: The Women's Movement in Yemen". In Arenfeldt, Pernille; Al-Hassan Golley, Nawar (eds.). Mapping Arab Women's Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within. Oxford University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-977-416-498-9.


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