Layla (magazine)

Layla Magazine

15 May 1924 issue
Editor Paulina Hassoun
Categories Women
Frequency Monthly
First issue 15 October 1923
Final issue 3 January 1925
Country Iraq
Language Arabic

Layla was a first women's magazine published in Baghdad, Iraq in 1923. It was published in the Arabic Language.[1][2]

History

Layla was founded by Paulina Hassoun in 1923 and focused exclusively on women's issues.[3] It was published 20 issues from 15 October 1923 to 3 January 1925.[1] It was closed due to financial reasons and protests from conservatives.[3]

The magazine was a pioneer of its time and the next women's magazine was started only over a decade later. The magazine was started at time when the Iraqi women's movement itself started and the magazine was seen as a pioneer for raising women's issues including an editorial to the Iraqi Assembly to give women more rights in 1924.[4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Layla, Issue 1, 15 October 1923". World Digital Library. 15 October 1923. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  2. Efrati, Noga (2004). "British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies" 31 (2): 158–159. JSTOR 4145506.
  3. 1 2 Beth K. Dougherty; Edmund A. Ghareeb (7 November 2013). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 658. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  4. Haifa Zangana (4 January 2011). City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance. Seven Stories Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-60980-071-0. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  5. Doreen Ingrams (1983). The awakened: women in Iraq. Third World Centre. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  6. Ruth Margolies Beitler; Angelica R. Martinez (9 April 2010). Women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-36240-8. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  7. "Remembering Layla The first women's magazine to be published in Iraq". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  8. "Women in the New Iraq". Global Politician. 29 September 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
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