1879–1947, b. Minya, Egypt Worked in Cairo • Sha’arawi was an Egyptian feminist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union (1923). • An anticolonial activist, Sha’arawi organized Egypt’s largest women-led, anti-British demonstration (1919), a milestone in the events leading to Egypt’s independence in 1922. • Sha’arawi refused to wear the hijab in public after 1922.
