Durriyyah Shafīq: Quick Facts

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Amīnah al-Saʿīd

Egyptian journalist and writer

Barbara Christian

Caribbean-American educator and critic

Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid

Egyptian journalist

Huda Sharawi

Egyptian feminist and nationalist

Muhammad Hassanein Heikal

Egyptian journalist

Muṣṭafā Kāmil

Egyptian politician

Clark Howell

American journalist

Sarah Grimké

American abolitionist

Ruth Sawyer

American writer

Ronald Ridenhour

American journalist

Herb Caen

American journalist

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai

Nepali journalist and politician

Anna Politkovskaya

Russian journalist

Louis Rukeyser

American author and television personality

Emerson Hough

American author and journalist

Shamsur Rahman

Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate

Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist and novelist

Pierre Salinger

American journalist and political figure

Harry Reasoner

American broadcast journalist

Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic