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Zahia Marzouk

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of the family. Some of her institutions were the Regional Federation of Social Services, the Happy Childhood Association, the Institute for Training and Research in Family Planning and the Alexandria Family Planning Association.
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In 1937 Marzouk founded a small group to look at Egypt's demographic issues. The national population was growing. By the end of the year there was a formal conference which was sponsored by the
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Marzouk was born in 1906, one of three sisters. Her father died when she was three but her mother managed to get all three girls educated. In 1923 Marzouk stopped wearing her
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The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs
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and refused a veil. She was a skilled fund raiser and artist as well. She died in 1988.
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in 1931 where she received an appointment to a teachers' college where Marzouk taught
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at her when she began. By the end of her talk she garnered applause.
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Marzouk did not conform to local dress, she wore western style
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Marzouk also founded an institution for children with a
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The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs
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