Hind's mother, Maryam, completed a biographical dictionary, Ma’rid al-Hasna’ fi Tarajim Masharhir al-Nisa’ (The beautiful woman's exhibition for the biographies of female celebrities), of Eastern and Western women.
[11][12] Nawfal had intended to “adorn its pages with pearls from the pens of women.”[13] In her first issue, she outlined her goals for the magazine, which included defending women's rights, expressing their views and drawing on their responsibility and duties.
She subtitled the magazine “scientific, historical, literary, and humorous.”[10] It would not however discuss politics and had “no aim in religious controversies.”[14][15] Nawfal was inspired by women's periodicals abroad which had existed almost a century and a half earlier than when she first published hers.
[18] Nawfal married Habib Dabbana in August 1893 who was a Syrian who worked in the legal section of the Ministry of Finance and stopped her journal to return to life of domesticity and philanthropy in 1894.
[9] Though al-Fatah only lasted two years, it was the first of the genre of Arab Feminist known as al-majallat al-nisa'iyya written by women, which reached almost 30 and coincided with the Egyptian Revolution of 1919.
Collectively the journals are one of the earliest troves of materials of this sort, for this was the first generation of women in the Arab world to write in numbers and to produce and publish their works as printed texts.