Mary Ajami
Mary Ajami (Arabic: ماري عجمي / ALA-LC: Mārī ʻAbduh ʻAjamī; 1888 – 25 December 1965) was a Syrian poet and pioneering feminist writer in Arabic, who launched the first women's periodical in West Asia, titled Al-'Arus (Arabic: العروس, lit. 'The Bride'). Devoted to social reform, Ajami was one of pioneers of the Nahda and was instrumental in allowing women in Syria to vote, merging social progress with the political aim of creating an Arab state after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.