Mufidah Abdul-Rahman, one of Egypt’s first female lawyers was honored in a Google doodle on Monday. Abdul-Rahman was born 106 years ago in Cairo in 1914, she died on Sept. 3, 2002 when she was 88. She graduated from Cairo University’s Faculty of Law and became the premiere female attorney in the country. A strong supporter of gender equality in Egypt, she regularly strove to improve women’s rights and was ...
