Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah

Pakistani writer

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 10-Sep-2000

Profession: writer, poet, journalist

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah

  • Zaib-un-Nissa (Bengali: ?????????? ???????????) (transliterated Zeb-un-Nissa, Zaibunnissa, Zaibun Nisa, Zaibunisa, Zaib-un-Nisa, Zebunnissa, Zeb-un-Nisa) Hamidullah (Urdu: ??? ?????? ?????????; 25 December 1918 – 10 September 2000) was a Pakistani writer and journalist.
  • She was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan.
  • She was Pakistan's first female columnist (in English), editor, publisher and political commentator.
  • Zaibunnisa Street in Karachi was named after her.Before independence in 1947, she wrote for many Indian newspapers, and was the first Muslim woman to write a column in an Indian newspaper.
  • After independence, her column in the newspaper Dawn made her the first female political commentator in Pakistan.
  • After she left Dawn, she became the founder and editor-publisher of the Mirror, the first social glossy magazine in Pakistan.
  • Due to her status as Pakistan's first female editor, she became the first woman to be included in press delegations sent to other countries.
  • On one of these delegations, in 1955, she became the first woman to speak at the ancient al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

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