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Cairo 1951: Islamic feminist Fatiha has just stormed the Egyptian Parliament with her best friend and sister-in-arms, legendary Egyptian feminist Doria Shafik, demanding the president grant Egyptian women equal civil and political rights to men, as promised in the constitution. Fatiha’s husband Ali is supportive but sometimes her activism tries his patience. Cairo 1970: Yasminah, daughter of Islamic feminist and professor Fatiha Bin-Khalid, has had her marriage arranged to a man she does not love after her parents’ apartment has been broken into and the walls graffitied with the words ‘shaza g…

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