Doria shafik biography

Doria Shafik
by Sania Shaarawi

Cynthia Nelson, who was the head of the sociology and anthropology department at the American University in Cairo, wrote the biography of Doria Shafik in 1996, almost twenty years after the tragic death of this exceptional woman.

Doria Shafik was a writer, a poetess and a journalist who graduated in philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She wrote poetry in French and was a feminist and political activist.

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Her story is an additional example of how writing can restitute life and a voice to those who have lost theirs.

Doria Shafik was born in the Egyptian Delta, in the city of Mansura, on 14 December 1908. She lived in a home  characterized  by differences of all kinds , that were often difficult to understand for a child.

Her mother came from a well-to-do family that suffered a turn of fortune after the father’s death. She was  then married to a government employee, a young and affectionate man who only ha