Sabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud

Sabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud (1912–1975) was Iraq's first female law graduate and a prominent women's rights activist.

Her mother, Na'ima Sultan Hamuda, was also politically active: in 1919 she encouraged Gertrude Bell to provide education for girls, in 1920 she headed a Baghdad women's committee to support the revolt, and in 1923 she was one of the founding members of the Women's Awakening Club.

[5] Da'ud was one of the first girls to receive a public education in Iraq.

She was a director of two of its constituent organizations since the 1940s, and became vice president of the Union in the early 1950s.

Her history of the Iraqi women's movement was used as the main source of The Awakened by Doreen Ingrams, the first extended English-language treatment of the women's movement in Iraq.