This is Dorreya Shafik, the woman who founded the first Arabic-language women magazine in the region, titled Bint El Nile, followed by the first political party to be founded by a woman in Egypt.

She also barged into the parliament leading a protest in 1951 and went on hunger strike in 1954 for 10 days calling for women’s right to vote and run for parliamentary elections. Ten days after Dorreya and her colleagues started the strike, the new constitution granted women the rights they called for.

It’s thanks to her and her fellow revolutionaries that we are today able to form political parties, join the parliament and vote in elections.