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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