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Hidaya Sultan al-Salem

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Kuwaiti journalist

JournalistsLived 1936 to 2001 · aged 65
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Hidaya Sultan al-Salem,, sometimes transliterated as Hedaya, was a Kuwaiti journalist and author, who owned and edited one of Kuwait's earliest political magazines al-Majalis in Kuwait City, Kuwait. She was Kuwait's first female to serve as an editor of a publication.

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Hidaya Sultan al-Salem,, sometimes transliterated as Hedaya, was a Kuwaiti journalist and author, who owned and edited one of Kuwait's earliest political magazines al-Majalis in Kuwait City, Kuwait. She was Kuwait's first female to serve as an editor of a publication. She was a feminist and secularist, and she campaigned against corruption and on behalf of women's rights and suffrage in Kuwait. She was the first journalist to be killed in Kuwait since the Committee to Protect Journalists began recording these acts in 1992.

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Journalists
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Journalist
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2001 · aged 65
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8 languages

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