Secret Histories: The Stories of Three Prominent Egyptian Women

Wael Abdel Fattah  |  Creative and Critical Writings  |  2019  |  Egypt
The project consists in writing the biographies of three famous women: Tahiyya Karioka, Mimi Shakib and Durriya Shafiq. All three were born in the early twentieth century, lived through contrasting political and social phases and experienced changes and shifts in their ideas and moods, which affected in one way or another the life and fate of each one of them.