Salma Sayegh was a Lebanese writer, novelist, and feminist of the Nahda era.
14 Facts About Salma Sayegh
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Salma Sayegh wrote for several journals, newspapers, and magazines such as Sawt al-Mar'a and published many novels.
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Salma Sayegh played part in Lebanon's cultural salon movement as she hosted one at her home in Beirut in the early 1950s.
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Salma Sayegh was born on December 3,1889, in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Salma Sayegh's parents were originally from Wadi al-Taym and had moved to Beirut in 1860.
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Salma Sayegh attended a school named Zahrat Al Ihsan, where she was inspired by her Arabic language teacher Al Sheikh Ibrahim Al Monzer.
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Salma Sayegh taught in a high school where she volunteered to give lessons in prose composition.
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Salma Sayegh attended a French university and unsuccessfully attempted to study dentistry.
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Salma Sayegh visited Egypt, Turkey, France, England and eventually moved to Brazil in search of her brother, and remained there for eight years until the start of the World War II.
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In 1911, Salma Sayegh married Farid Kassab with whom she had two children.
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In 1924, Salma Sayegh was in the process of forming a society composed of women from Beirut called the Society for Women's Renaissance to lobby for gender equality; to sign, spread, and submit petitions; and to promote Lebanon's local economy by encouraging Syrian and Lebanese products.
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Salma Sayegh's writings supported the Palestinian cause in the build-up to the Palestinian Catastrophe in 1948.
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Salma Sayegh advocated for equal wages to ensure a better living for all Lebanese.
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Salma Sayegh published "Ba'ad Nawahi al-Khayr fi Lubnan" and "A'amal al-Rahma" in both Arabic and French, in 1949.