Mufidah Abdul Rahman, the first female lawyer to take cases to the Court of Cassation in Egypt, the first woman to practice law in Cairo, Egypt, the first woman to plead a case before a military court in Rgypt, and the first woman to plead cases before courts in the south of Egypt.[3][4][5] Naima Ilyas al-Ayyubi, the first female lawyer in Egypt, became the first woman to complete a Bachelor’s Degree in the Faculty of Law at an Egyptian university (namely, Cairo University, then called Egyptian University) in 1933.[6][7] Yehia Hakki is one of the pioneers of the 20th-century modern literary movement in Egypt.