Amina Shukri

Amina Shukri (Arabic: أمينة شكرى, 1912–1964) was an Egyptian social worker and politician.

Shukri was born in Alexandria in 1912, the daughter of Mohamed Abu El-Ezz, a newspaper editor.

[2][3] She married Osman Shukri, a doctor and child specialist, with whom she had a daughter.

[2] The 1956 constitution introduced women's suffrage and allowed women to stand as candidates, and Shukri was one of sixteen female candidates in the 1957 parliamentary elections,[4] running in Alexandria.

[2] She was elected in the second round of voting,[5] becoming one of the first two female members of the National Assembly alongside Rawya Ateya.