In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo
harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922,
Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the
seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her
marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her
husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as
an unexpected taste of independence and a critical understanding of
the price of confinement. Shaarawi's feminist activism grew along
with her involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle and culminated
in 1923 in a daring act of defiance, when she publicly removed her
veil in a Cairo railroad station.
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