On matters of the heart, late Egyptian writer was way ahead of his time
15th Nov 2006, 00:10 GMT
If sexual equality could be achieved through literature, then the late Egyptian writer Ibrahim al-Mazini would have been a leading advocate for the rights of women in patriarchal societies. Born in the 1890s, active in the 1930s and 1940s and sensitive to the desires and anxieties of the Egyptian middle class, Mazini used his fiction to tackle such taboo.
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