Alexandra Avierino

[1] She was born Alexandra Constantine Khuri in Beirut into a Greek Christian Orthodox family.

[2][3] In 1898, she founded Anis Al-Jalis ("The Sociable Companion"), a monthly women's magazine, also serving as its editor.

In 1901, she started a French literary review Le Lotus; it was expensive to produce and only appeared for a year.

[2] During the early 1920s, she was forced to travel to England to resolve issues related to her status as a British citizen.

[1] Then, in July 1924, she was arrested by Egyptian authorities and accused of being involved in an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul.