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''Four Women of Egypt'' (original French title ''Quatre femmes d'Égypte'') is a 1997 Canadian-Egyptian documentary film by Tahani Rached. The film revolves around four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views in modern-day Egypt. The film was highly acclaimed and won several awards in documentary film festivals. ==Cast== Wedad Mitry has been a lifelong journalist. A student activist, she was the only woman elected to the Student Union at Cairo University in 1951. That same year she joined the Women's Popular Resistance Committee (founded by the feminist Saiza Nabarawi). Safinaz Kazem, a journalist, theater critic and writer, is the author of many books. In the 1960s she was a graduate student in the United States-in Kansas, Chicago, and New York. She is the ex-wife of the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm and the mother of the political activist and writer Nawara Negm.〔 Shahenda Maklad was active in student and nationalist movements, running as a candidate in parliamentary campaigns. She continues her tireless fight for peasants' rights and other populist causes. Her husband, Hussein Salah was politically assassinated on 30 April 1966 in the town of Kamshish.〔 Amina Rachid is a committed leftist, was born into the old upper class, the granddaughter of Ismail Sidki (a former prime minister). She completed her studies in Paris where she was active in the Arab Student Association in France and worked for several years at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Her political commitment brought her back to Egypt where she teaches French literature at Cairo University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Four Women of Egypt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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