| Description | Folder of material on 'Women in the Middle East' including the text of Dorothy El-Muracy's speech 'Middle Eastern Women' (see her letter in EUL MS 473/2/3), Helen Lackner's handwritten notes in green ink on 'Iraq Women' (20 November 1976) and a copy of 'The Iraqi Woman' (Baghdad, 1975), an issue of the Arabic magazine 'Al-Mar'a' [The Woman] (No.64, 1976), a typescript interview with Ayda Ali Said President of the Yemeni Women's Union (September 1972), the January 1974 issue of the Afro-Asian Women's Magazine (published by the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation, AAPSO), extracts from the Summary of World Broadcasts (5 October 1973) reporting on the Revolution Command Council Law on Adultery, the second of a series of three articles on the lives of Muslim women for The Sunday Times written by Lesley Blanch with photographer Eve Arnold, on The Trucial States (1971), 'Documents from and about Arab Women' (1974) that includes an interview with Leila Khaled and reports on women in the PFLOAG, issue No.9 of 'Red Rag. A Magazine of Women's Liberation' (June 1975), a photocopy of Sylvia haim's 'The Situation of the Arab Woman in the Mirror of Literature' (MES, 1981), Vol.II, No.4 of Third World Forum (May-July 1976) with a special focus on Third World Women (including Oman) and enclosing an editorial letter to the Gulf Committe about a forthcoming advert, 'Arab Women' (Minority Rights Group Report No.27, a publication by the Iranian Students Society in GB on Iranian women prisoners, 'Arab Liberation News' Vol.1:1 (August 1975) |