Ester Fanous, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Egyptian suffragette and women's rights activist
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Place of Birth: Asyut, Asyut Governorate, Egypt
About Ester Fanous
- Ester Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous (Coptic: ????? ???? ??????), also known as Ester Wissa (February 19, 1895, Assiut, Egypt – August 1990) was an Egyptian Christian feminist.
- From a prominent Coptic family, she was a founding member of the New Woman Society and helped found the Women's Wafd Central Committee in 1920.
- Her son Hanna Fahmy Wissa has written about her in his family memoir Assiout.
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