Regina Khayatt (née, Wissa; 1881–1942) was an Egyptian educator, philanthropist, feminist, suffragist, and temperance worker. She was the founder and president of the National Woman's Christian Training Center, founder of the Egyptian Young Women's Christian Association YWCA, and a founding member of the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU).[1][2][3][4]
Biography
editRegina Wissa was born at Assiout, Upper Egypt, October 11, 1881. She was a member of the Wissa family, who owned extensive lands in the Nile Delta's Faiyum Oasis.[3] Her father was Wissa Boctor Wissa and her mother was Angelina Saifi.[4] She was educated in the Pressly Memorial Institute for Girls, directed by the American Presbyterian Mission.[1][4]
In 1896, she married Dr. Habib Khayatt Bey, of Cairo, an Egyptian Senator.[1] The Khayatt and the Wissa families were Copts.[4]
Khayatt was actively interested in political and social questions. She was a leader in the movement for emancipation of the women of her country. She was the founder and president of the National Woman's Christian Training Center, a member of the Woman's International Suffrage Alliance, treasurer of the Woman's Political Society, and a committee member of the Societe de la Nouvelle Femme d’Egypt, Societe de Puericulture, and Mohamed Aly Dispensary for Child Welfare. She was also treasurer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Egypt and a leader in the movement to secure Prohibition in that country.[1]
In 1923, she served as director of the YWCA's Cairo branch.[5] In 1926, she founded the Egyptian YWCA.[4]
Regina Khayatt died in 1942.[6] Her daughter Dora Khayatt was a noted painter.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1928). "KHAYATT, REGINA.". Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Co. p. 1464. Retrieved 25 March 2024 – via Internet Archive.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "The Women of Dgypt Demand Equal Rights". The Kansas City Times. 25 June 1928. p. 6. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b "Women of Egypt Lead a Crusade Against Drugs". The Kansas City Times. 21 December 1929. p. 28. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Badran, Margot (1 April 1996). Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton University Press. pp. 80, 96–97. ISBN 978-1-4008-2143-3. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Okkenhaug, Inger Marie; Flaskerud, Ingvild (1 March 2005). Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84520-728-1. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Wissa, Hanna Fahmy (2000). Assiout: The Saga of an Egyptian Family. Book Guild. ISBN 978-1-85776-507-6. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
