Zaima al-Baruni

Zaima al-Baruni was born in 1910 in Jadu, in the Nafusa Mountains, the daughter of the Amazigh chief Sulayman al-Baruni. She had her first classes in Turkish in Istanbul and grew up in exile, where her father's library gave her an education rare for a woman of her country. Having returned to Libya in 1947, she settled in Tripoli, was appointed in 1950 to the girls' schools, became an inspector, then headed the literacy office. Founder in 1958 of the Women's Renaissance Association, she represented Libya at the Afro-Asian women's conference in Cairo in 1960. She died on 10 May 1976.

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• Short storiesمن القصص القوميZaima al-Baruni · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature