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Egyptian communist and feminist

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Arwa Saleh (1951-1997) was an Egyptian communist and feminist, who was a veteran student leader in the 1970s radical student movement. She was also a member of the central committee of the Marxist-Leninist Egyptian Communist Workers Party (ECWP).

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Arwa Saleh (1951-1997) was an Egyptian communist and feminist, who was a veteran student leader in the 1970s radical student movement. She was also a member of the central committee of the Marxist-Leninist Egyptian Communist Workers Party (ECWP). Much of her writing appeared in the ECWP paper, circulated underground due to state repression of communists. She also published several translations of Marxist literature in Arabic, including Tony Cliff's Class Struggle and Women's Liberation (1984). She has two published essay collections - al-Mubtasarun and another, posthumously published, titled Saratan al-Rawh. She committed suicide in 1997.

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Egypt
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1951 to 1997 · aged 46
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