Biography of rawia rashed
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Nazli Sabri
Sultana/Queen of Egypt from 1919 to 1936
Nazli Sabri (Arabic: نازلي صبري; 25 June 1894 – 29 May 1978) was the first queen consort in the Kingdom of Egypt from 1919 to 1936. She was the second wife of King Fuad I.
Early life
[edit]Nazli was born on 25 June 1894 to an Egyptian father and a mother of Turkish, French and Greek origin.[2][3] Her father was Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha,[4] Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, and her mother was Tawfika Sharif Hanim. Nazli had two brothers: Sherif Sabri Pasha and Hussein Sabri Pasha, and two sisters: Amina Sabri and Nawal Sabri.[5]
She was the maternal granddaughter of Major General Mohamed Sherif Pasha, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, who was of Turkish origin.[6] She was also a great-granddaughter of the French-born officer Suleiman Pasha.[7]
Nazli first went to the Lycée de la Esclave-de-Dieu in Cairo, and later to the Collège Notre
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Rawya Shawa
Palestinian journalist and politician
Rawya Rashad Said al-Shawa (Arabic: راوية الشوا, December 1944 – 3 July 2017) was a Palestinian journalist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Council in 1996.
Biography
[edit]Shawa was born in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood of Gaza City in December 1944 to a Lebanese mother and Palestinian father. Her father Rashad was mayor of Gaza from 1972 to 1982. She married Aoun Saadi al-Shawa (who succeeded her father as mayor), with whom she had four children.[1] Having graduated with a literature degree from the American University in Cairo in 1964,[2] she worked as a journalist for the al-Nahar al-Maqdasiya and al-Quds newspapers.[citation needed]
In the 1996 elections to the Legislative Council, she ran as an independent candidate in Gaza, and was one of five women elected, becoming the first female Palestinian MPs.[3] She was re-elected in
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