Her Story ... Feminist & Activist
IX. Looking Outward to the World Stage
Milestones:
1949 Bint al-Nil Union registered with International Council of Women (ICW)
DS associated with Non-Aligned movement
Doria understood the power of the media in promoting a message and used the press as a tool to get her ideas across to the public as well as to the international arena. By registering the Bint al-Nil Union with the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1949, Doria shone a light onto women’s struggles in the most populous country in the Middle East, a hitherto unknown quantity in Western eyes.
Her entry onto the world stage at a time of cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States was inevitably seen through the prism of that conflict. Doria became associated with the non-aligned movement, an organization of independent developing countries who did not see themselves in either camp of the cold war between the two super powers.
