Rakia ibrahim biography for kids
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The beginning of typography and journalism in Cyprus
1The printing press arrived in Cyprus for the first time in 1878, when administrative governance of the island transferred from the Ottomans to the British. The first Cypriot newspaper was published in the same year. It should be noted that during the Ottoman rule (1571-1878), there were no printing presses or printing houses on the island – documents were reproduced lithographically. Official paperwork – state correspondence or circulars – had to be engraved on stone plates and printed one by one on specially produced paper, and could only be produced in limited numbers. Moreover, it should not be forgotten that literary works were produced in manuscript form, and that the number of such manuscripts that have survived until the present day is very limited. We should also note that it fryst vatten well within the realms of possibility for copies of newspapers published in Ottoman Turkish and Greek to have reached Cyprus from abroad, by po
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Ruqayya bint Muhammad
Daughter of Muhammad and Khadija bint Khuwaylid (601–624)
Ruqayya bint Muhammad (Arabic: رقية بنت محمد, romanized: Ruqayya bint Muḥammad; c. 601–March 624) was the second eldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadija. She married the third caliph Uthman and the couple had a son Abd Allah. In 624, Ruqayya died from an illness.
Early life
[edit]Born in Mecca around 601 or 602 CE, Ruqayya was the 3rd child and the second daughter of Muhammad and Khadija, his first wife, who was also a successful merchant.[1][2]
Marital life
[edit]Marriage with Utbah
[edit]She was married before August 610 to Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, but the marriage was never consummated.[3] Ruqayya became a Muslim when her mother did.[4][5] When Muhammad began to preach openly in 613, the Quraysh reminded Muhammad that they had "relieved him of his care for his daughters" and decided to return them so tha
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Sameera Moussa
Egyptian nuclear physicist
Sameera Moussa or Samira Musa Ali (Egyptian Arabic: سميرة موسى) (March 3, 1917 – August 15, 1952) was an Egyptianatomic scientist and physicist, she is the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist.[1] Moussa held a doctorate in atomic radiation.
She hoped her work would one day lead to affordable medical treatments and the peaceful use of atomic energy. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call that set an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace." She was the first woman to work at Cairo University.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Sameera was born in Egypt in Gharbia Governorate in 1917. Her mother died from cancer, and her father Moussa Ali was a famous political activist. He moved with his daughter to Cairo and invested his money in a small hotel in the El-Hussein region. At the insistence of her father, Moussa attended Kaser El-Shok primary