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The Egyptian roots of feminism
The history of ancient Egyptian woman can teach the West that it is not the first region in the world to empower women.
Like our Greek cousins across the Mediterranean, Egyptians take outsized pride in their contributions to shaping human civilisation, partly as an antidote to our contemporary state of disarray.
For their part…