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Cemetery were built at the expense A wooden armchair inlaid with mother-of-pearl and
of the Ministry of Education in 1938. nail heads, 110 x 65 x 85 cm, Huda Sha’arawi’s
She was also a member of the Friends collection
of the Imagination Society Committee,
which included a number of authors,
intellectuals, and figures of the Egyptian
society, among them were Al-Aqqad
(1964-1889), Al-Mazzini (1949-1889),
Muhammad Hussein Heikal, May Ziadeh
(1941-1886), and Sheikh Mustafa Abdel
Razeq (1947-1885).
Huda Sha’arawi was also a member
of the first committee of women
interested in the fine arts and paintings.
It was established in 1920 under the
leadership of Princess Samiha Hussein,
daughter of Sultan Hussein Kamel. The
most prominent members were the wife
of Wissa Bey Wassef, speaker of the
Egyptian Parliament in the reign of King
Fouad, and the sister of artist Mahmoud
Said.(44)
Some highly esteemed Egyptian art
historians and critics have recognized the
role of Huda Sha’arawi in the arrangement
of the first art exhibitions through which
most of our early pioneers emerged.
The late critic Badr El-Din Abou Ghazi
wrote in a booklet entitled «Cairo Salon
in Fifty Years» on page 6: «This Salon,
inaugurated on March 7th, 1924, was
the beginning of a continuous series of
exhibitions. It was preceded by attempts
of the respectable lady Huda Sha’arawi
and a group of Egyptian women to hold
exhibitions of Egyptian artists, whose
talents were manifested in our cultural
life after the 1919 Revolution.»
(44) See Al-Jabakhangi, Muhammad Sidqi: History A wooden tiled table, 90 x 57 x 57 cm, the
of the Artistic Movement in Egypt until 1945, pp. 39� twentieth century, Huda Sha’arawi’s collection
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of the Ministry of Education in 1938. nail heads, 110 x 65 x 85 cm, Huda Sha’arawi’s
She was also a member of the Friends collection
of the Imagination Society Committee,
which included a number of authors,
intellectuals, and figures of the Egyptian
society, among them were Al-Aqqad
(1964-1889), Al-Mazzini (1949-1889),
Muhammad Hussein Heikal, May Ziadeh
(1941-1886), and Sheikh Mustafa Abdel
Razeq (1947-1885).
Huda Sha’arawi was also a member
of the first committee of women
interested in the fine arts and paintings.
It was established in 1920 under the
leadership of Princess Samiha Hussein,
daughter of Sultan Hussein Kamel. The
most prominent members were the wife
of Wissa Bey Wassef, speaker of the
Egyptian Parliament in the reign of King
Fouad, and the sister of artist Mahmoud
Said.(44)
Some highly esteemed Egyptian art
historians and critics have recognized the
role of Huda Sha’arawi in the arrangement
of the first art exhibitions through which
most of our early pioneers emerged.
The late critic Badr El-Din Abou Ghazi
wrote in a booklet entitled «Cairo Salon
in Fifty Years» on page 6: «This Salon,
inaugurated on March 7th, 1924, was
the beginning of a continuous series of
exhibitions. It was preceded by attempts
of the respectable lady Huda Sha’arawi
and a group of Egyptian women to hold
exhibitions of Egyptian artists, whose
talents were manifested in our cultural
life after the 1919 Revolution.»
(44) See Al-Jabakhangi, Muhammad Sidqi: History A wooden tiled table, 90 x 57 x 57 cm, the
of the Artistic Movement in Egypt until 1945, pp. 39� twentieth century, Huda Sha’arawi’s collection
-40.
201
