What is Maryam Amid?
[[File:Maryam amid.jpg|thumb|Maryam Amid-Semnani]] {{cleanup|date=April 2024}} '''Maryam Amid-Semnani''' ({{lang-fa|مریم عمید سمنانی}}) was an Iranian intellectual and journalist active during the early 20th century. In Iran, she is remembered for founding ''[[Shokufeh]]'', an influential women's magazine.<ref>BBC News (2018) Women and their achievements feature on billboards in Iran. BBC News, 13 October. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43386877 [Accessed 19 April 2020].</ref> She also established the Iranian Women's Society, which reportedly had 5,000 members at the peak of its popularity.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-T-ng2v47QC&dq=Maryam+Amid&pg=PA85|title=Women in the Middle East: Past and Present|date=9 August 2012|publisher=Princeton University (Accessed 19 April 2020)|isbn=9781400845057}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} * فرهنگ قومس؛ فصلنامه پژوهشی، فرهنگی، هنری استان سمنان، شماره ۳۷ و ۳۸ بهار و تابستان ۱۳۸۶/Ghomis Culture, The quarterly research of cultural and artistic in Semnan Province, numbers 37–38, spring and summer 2007. * روزنامه سرمایه، شماره ۲۵۷ (۲ شهریور ۱۳۸۵)- Sarmayeh Newspaper, number 257, (24 August 2006). * [http://www.sharghnewspaper.ir/830514/media.htm#s94047 /Journalist women under the shadow of constitutionalism]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ==Other websites== * [http://www.barnameh-budjeh.com/npview.asp?ID=1118573 Maryam Amid, Girls' Literacy Light]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{Biography-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Amid, Maryam}} [[Category:1919 deaths]] [[Category:Iranian journalists]] [[Category:Iranian human rights activists]]