Gamila

Gamila El Alaily (in Arabic جميلة العلايلي born in Mansoura, Egypt 20 March 1907, and died 11 April 1991) was an Egyptian poet and novelist who confronted ideas that were then socially accepted by educated men about women. As the first female member of the previously all male Apollo Poet Society, she was a pioneer women in the literary scene in Egypt and an influential modernist.