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

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.