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Mar 2021
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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

Bbc World Service
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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring; the underground abortion network in 1960s America; Greece's champion of the Parthenon Marbles, Melina Mercouri; China’s most powerful 19th-century ruler, and the doctor who was India’s 1966 Miss World.

Photo: Hend Nafea protesting in Tahrir Square in January 2011. (Copyright Hend Nafea)

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