Amīnah al-Saʿīd: Quick Facts

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Born	1914 • Cairo • Egypt
Died	August 13, 1995 (aged 81) • Cairo • Egypt
Role In	women’s rights movement

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Marie Mattingly Meloney

American journalist and editor

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Durriyyah Shafīq

Egyptian author and reformer

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Francis Horace Vizetelly

American-British writer

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Samuel Johnson

English author

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

John Wilkes, engraving from a manifesto commemorating his fight against general warrants and for the liberty of the press, 1768

John Wilkes

British journalist and politician

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Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat

French politician, physician, and journalist

David Remnick

David Remnick

American journalist

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Jane Cunningham Croly

American journalist

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H.L. Mencken

American writer

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Anna Louise Strong

American journalist and scholar

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Robert Thomson

Australian journalist and editor

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

French writer

The voice of a movement

Gloria Steinem

American feminist, political activist, and editor

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Carlos P. Romulo

Filipino diplomat

Schurz

Carl Schurz

German-American politician

Stone, I.F.

I. F. Stone

American journalist

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Stojan Protić

Serbian statesman

William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.

William Thomas Stead

British journalist