Name Sabiha Da'ud | ||
Sabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud (1912–1975) was an Iraqi lawyer and women's rights activist.
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Life
Da'ud's father Ahmad al-Shaikh Da'ud was among the Iraqi leaders arrested during the 1920 Iraqi revolt and subsequently exiled. Her mother, Na'ima Sultan Hamuda, was also politically active: in 1919 she encouraged Gertrude Bell to provide education for girls, in 1920 she headed a Baghdad women's committee to support the revolt, and in 1923 she was one of the founding members of the Women's Awakening Club.
Da'ud, one of the first girls to receive a public education in Iraq, was active in the Iraqi Women's Union, a nationalist women's organization. She was a director of two of its constituent organizations since the 1940s, and became vice president of the Union in the early 1950s. Her history of the Iraqi women's movement was used as the main source of The Awakened by Doreen Ingrams, the first extended English-language treatment of the women's movement in Iraq.