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Begum Rokeya

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, also known as Begum Rokeya (Begum is a feminine honorific and not an official part of Rokeya Hossain's name), was a Bengali Muslim feminist writer who wrote essays, novels, and short stories on the state of women's rights in British India and women's liberation. Born in 1880 into an upper-class family, Rokeya's father taught both her and her sister Arabic, Persian, English, and Bengali, although he encouraged the two young women to focus on studying Arabic and...

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Begum Rokeya Essays

Literary Assertions on Women’s Rights in the Middle East Anonymous College

Sultana's Dream

Literary Assertions on Women’s Rights in the Middle East

Women’s issues have permeated societies throughout the world for decades, and many authors have attempted to deal with issues such as women’s rights through their own literary works. In...

“…in the far-off Ladyland, ladies rule over the country…”: Empowerment and Cooperation in Rokeya Sakhwawat Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream” Anonymous College

Sultana's Dream

Some dreams can be “too good to be true”; nevertheless, they depict unconscious wish that can be attained in real life. In her dream, Sultana figures out that life in Ladyland is vastly different from life in her land (India) where the women...