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Who was the Egyptian feminist and nationalist who removed her veil publicly at Cairo's Ramses station in 1923, symbolizing the women's liberation movement?

Huda Sha'arawi, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union, returned from a women's conference in Rome in 1923 and dramatically removed her face veil (burqu') at the railway station — a choreographed act of defiance that made the front pages and became the iconic image of Egyptian feminism.

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