جريدة "السفور" و قضية حجاب المرأة و اختلاطها بالرجال 1915-1923

Abstract EN

In this study, we discuss AlSofour newspaper vision for women's hijab ”veil” and their mixture with men, being the main theme/concern/objective of the paper and one of the most important topics concerned with Egyptian women in the early twentieth century years.

The study is divided into two researches; the first reviewed the foundation of the paper, its main features & most highlighted values governing its direction on the intellectual and political level.

The second research displayed how the paper stands regarding women's hijab and gender mixture.

We attempted in this part to understand how AlSofour related to preceding thoughts/ideas concerned with women liberation, especially those of Kassem Amin, and how this caused the paper experience & progress to be gradual and cautious, aside from its continuous desire not to clash with religious constants.

Despite this cautious progressive nature, AlSofour had always demanded women's liberation from the common hijab & face mask as symbols for eastern tyranny and male oppression towards women, meanwhile trying to change this notion from a “Religious Demand” to a ”Social Practice”, one that can be criticized and changed.

In the same context, AlSofour stood by Women's attempts to break surrounding walls/barriers and penetrate them, supporting their participations in public/international forums, endorsed 'public women figures', and confronted harassment and mistreatment of women in Egyptian streets, considered as a sexual reflection of hijab.

On the above grounds, this study also mentions the 1919 revolution impact on how AlSofour addressed the issue in hand, and how this revolution empowered those calling upon the idea of gender mingling and gave them a sense of victory and optimism.