Asia Tawfiq Wahbi

Asia Tawfiq Wahbi
آسيا توفيق وهبي
Born1901 (1901)
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
Died1980 (aged 78–79)
Baghdad, Iraq
Occupationswriter, social reformer and leader of the women's movement in Iraq
Organization(s)Society for Combating Social Illness, Iraqi Women's Union
SpouseTawfiq Wahbi

Asia Tawfiq Wahbi (Arabic: آسيا توفيق وهبي) (1980–1901) was an Iraqi writer, social reformer and leader of the women's movement in Iraq. She inaugurated the first feminist union in Iraq, the al-Ittihad al-Nisai (Iraqi Women's Union), and was one of the founders of the Society for Combating Social Illness.

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