Ester Fanous
Ester Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous (), also known as Ester Wissa (February 19, 1895, Assiut, Egypt – August 1990) was an Egyptians, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Christian feminism, feminist. From a prominent Copts in Egypt, Coptic family, she was a founding member of the New Woman Society and helped found the Women's Wafd Central Committee in 1920. Her son Hanna Fahmy Wissa has written about her in his family memoir ''Assiout''.Hanna Fahmy Wissa, ''Assiout: the saga of an Egyptian family'', 2000. Life Esther Fahmy Wissa was the daughter of doctor Akhnoukh Fanous and Balsam Wissa. The national and religious atmosphere dominating her parents' house had a great influence on her personality; she accordingly knew the freedom through the ideas and opinions raised within her family and through the valuable books existing in her father's library. When the famous lawyer, Makram Ebeid, a friend of their family visited her house, Ester Fanous learned that Saad Zaghloul ...
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