Salama Moussa
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Salama Moussa (4 February 1887 – 4 August 1958) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist who is lauded for having written/translated over 40 published books. While attending secondary school in Cairo, Moussa was exposed to writers such as Farah Antun, Jurji Zaydan, and Ahmad Lutfi Al-Sayyid that discussed modern and, at the time, radical ideas such as Social Darwinism, women's rights, and nationalism. He is credited for later popularising the idea of socialism in Egypt and for advocating for an egalitarian socialism where women's sovereignty was upheld. He was also an Egyptian Nationalist who championed unity amongst Egyptians, and called for the political and economic independence of Egypt from British occupation. In the 1920s, at the height of a cultural and literary renaissance in Egypt, he established the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Education. During this time he also participated in public debates around restitution, through his contributions to Al Ahram, where he called for the return of Egyptian cultural belongings as a matter of resistance to colonialism and reclamaition of identity. Following the closure of the academy by the government in the 1930s, he founded the magazine, Al Majalla Al Jadida,which was in circulation until the mid 1940s. In the 1950s he served as the supervisor of the science section in Akhbar el-Yom, a role he served in until his death in 1958.