Kamal Amin: Seeking Frank Lloyd Wright

International Journal of Middle East Studies

In Egyptian popular history and culture, Qasim Amin is often referred to the “father of feminism” or the “liberator of women.” However, this was not always the case. Upon his death in 1908, a different legacy emerged in many early eulogies, speeches, biographical sketches, and commemorations of Amin's life. In this early framing of Amin's legacy, his two most famous books were celebrated in ways that minimized the “woman question” while highlighting other aspects of his reforms and work. This allowed Amin's 1908 contemporaries to overlook the divisiveness of his earlier positions in favor of a new sort of fraternal solidarity—one that served the interests of certain political and intellectual male elites. For many of these writers—with a few notable exceptions—Amin was a quintessential reformer and thinker whose interest in the status of women was important insofar as it spoke to the ethos of his intellectual and political projects, not what it could do for women.

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam, 2016

Close associate of Colonel Nasser, British trained Egyptian major kamal El-Din Hussein is held by historians as responsible for destroying the once enlightened Egyptian education system and replacing it with indoctrination of Orwellian proportion. but in his latter year he argued for return to pluralist parliamentarian system. Although fighting alongside the British in WW2, he thought to have then held secrete nazi sympathies as close associate of Muslim Brotherhood. He opposed them in mid 1960s

Saleem Samad, 2020

Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was in prison accused of treason by the military dictator General Ayub Khan for conspiring to bifurcate the eastern province of Pakistan into an independent state, Bangladesh. In fact, the dream came into reality in less than five years. Kamal was an avid promoter of Bangla-speaking students to join regular sports, especially cricket. Shaheen School fared very well in inter-school competitions in basketball, football, cricket, and other sporting events for his active involvement. Kamal used to visit junior classes to recruit students who had a flair for music, dance, and drama. Fortunately, Sheikh Kamal’s pro-active initiative had yielded a positive result. Nearly a dozen footballers and cricketers who studied in Shaheen School joined the national team. Amongst them was Kazi Salauddin, who is presently president of the Bangladesh Football Federation. Most exciting was Tanveer Mazhar Islam Tanna and Jahangir Shah Badshah who played cricket in the national team after the independence of Bangladesh.

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