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Lotfia El Nadi ((アラビア語:لطفية النادي); October 29, 1907 – 2002) was an Egyptian aviatrix. ==Early life== Born on 29 October 1907 to a regular, middle-class family, Lotfia went through her primary education and was expected to marry at an early age and become a housewife and mother. Her father, who worked for the Matbaa Amiriya, the government print house, didn’t believe that girls should go on to secondary education. But her mother thought otherwise, and pushed for Lotfia to go on to the American College, a language school with a modern outlook and curricula. Like many of girls of her age, she dreamed of bigger and better things. One day, she came across an article about aviation that had a bit of intriguing news. A flying school had just opened in Cairo. This was just too much temptation for the young Lotfia. Lotfia started thinking of who could help her fulfil her dream. Her first port of call was the popular journalist Ahmed Al-Sawi, who used to write a daily column in Al-Ahram titled “In A Nutshell,” or Ma Qalla Wa Dall. This proved to be too much for the forward-looking social writer, who was all for women’s liberation, but refused to encourage Lotfia to fly without her father’s knowledge or consent. Undaunted, Lotfia went straight to the man who ran Egypt’s national airlines. Kamal Elwi, the director general of EgyptAir, didn’t take long to agree to her request. Here was a young woman who could capture the imagination of the country. It would be great publicity for the airlines and the flying school, he thought. Because Lotfia had no money to pay for the flying lessons, she went to work as the school’s secretary and telephone operator to cover the costs. 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「Lotfia ElNadi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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