Search engine Google is celebrating 112th anniversary birth of the Egyptian Enjy Aflatoun. She was born on April 16, 1924, and died on April 17, 1989. Her paintings strongly inspired Egyptian working class.
Egyptian Enjy Aflatoun
Aflatoun was born in Cairo to a family with a Turkish descent; she studied at a Catholic school specializing in upper-class girls in Egypt, but at that time she would rebel against the school's administration and teachers.
She was also a pioneering feminist who worked to ensure women's rights were kept in mind as Egypt moved away from British rule up until the UK military made exit in 1952.
Egyptian working class people by Aflatoun
In 1945, she represented a Cairo group of women at 1st conference of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Paris.
Aflatoun created art and photographed all her dreams and lives; her paintings depicted all her dreams in her subconscious mind.
Aflatoun created art and photographed all her dreams and lives, to paint all her dreams in the subconscious mind in her paintings. Later in her career she focused on landscapes.Today her work hangs in many museums and galleries around the world.
Paintings by Aflatoun
In addition, she wrote two popular political pamphlets in 1948 and 1949 that linked gender and class oppression: both pamphlets are intrinsically connected to imperialism.
Google celebrates 112th birth of Enjy Aflatoun
Aflatoun's father ''Hassan' was the founder of the entomology department and Faculty of Science dean at Cairo University and her mother ''Salha'', served in the Women's Committee of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
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