Labiba Hashim

Labiba Hashim (لبيبة هاشم) (1882 - 1952) was a Lebanese novelist who wrote women's Arabic literature. She established "Fatat al-sharq" ("Girl of the East") magazine, one of the first's women's magazines in the Arabic world, in Cairo in 1906.
Early life.
Hashim was born in Beirut, and studied at the Sisters of Love School and the English Missionary School in her native Lebanon. In 1898 she published "Hasanat al-hubb" ("The Merits of Love"), which she self described as a "literary tale and an economic exhortation".
Career.
In 1900, Hashim moved to Cairo, where she encountered the Warda al-Yaziji group of writers and thinkers. She learned much about Arabic literature from Ibrahim al-Yaziji, and in 1904 she published the novel "Qalb al-rejul" ("A Man's Heart") a romantic tale featuring an Egyptian girl of Syrian heritage. In 1906 she founded "Fatat al-sharq" ("Girl of the East") magazine, one of the first's women's magazines in the Arabic world. She set up an office in Cairo which employed a number of women freelancer journalists, editors, and typesetters. In 1911 she became the first Arab woman to be appointed lecturer of Egyptian University, and again in 1919, when King Faisal I appointed her general inspector of women's schools in Damascus, she was the first woman to be appointed to this position.
Due to conflict she returned to Egypt but in 1921 she immigrated to Chile, and began publishing for "al-Sharq wa-al-gharb" magazine there. In 1942 she returned to Egypt and resumed working for "Fatat al-sharq". She authored the "Kitab al-tarbiya" ("The Book of Education"), a compendium on her teachings and differences in education between genders.