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Latifa al-Zayyat

Died in 1996

Latifa al-Zayyat was born in Damietta in 1923. A graduate in English literature of Cairo University in 1946, she defended her doctorate there in 1957. In the 1940s, she led the National Committee of Students and Workers and was arrested in 1949, with her first husband. A professor at the girls' college of Ain Shams University, she also headed the Academy of Arts. As head of the Committee for the Defence of National Culture, she was imprisoned again in 1981. She died in 1996.

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