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Google celebrates first Egyptian woman lawyer, Mufida Abdel Rahman
21-1-2020
Google celebrated on January 20 the anniversary of woman Egyptian lawyer, Mufida Abdel Rahman, born on January 20, 1914, by displaying her photo on its logo. According to the largest search engine on the internet, Mufida was the first woman to practice law in Egypt and one of the first cohort of graduates (1939) from the School of Law, Fuad Al Awal University (currently Cairo University). She is the first married woman to enroll in the university and the first mother to graduate from it. Mufida is considered the first woman lawyer to plead before Egypt’s Court of Cassation and has earned her fame after the first case she took up, which was the case of ‘unintentional murder’. After winning the case and the acquittal of her client, Mufida, a mother of 9, started her own law firm. Aside from law, she became a member of Parliament and remained so for 17 years. A vigorous parliamentary and social activist, Mufida was the only woman involved in the committee for the amendment of personal status law in the sixties of the past century. She participated in the historic struggle to support Egyptian women to win the right of voting in 1956. She was dubbed as the ‘Ideal working mother’ for her successful career where she pleaded in over 400 court cases, and in recognition of her social, parliamentary and family feats. She died in 2002 at the age of 88. (An Nahar, January 21, 2020)
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