Mahiya Najib (1926-1982), was a Yemeni women's rights activist, editor and journalist. She founded Fatat Shamsan [The Maiden of Mount Shamsan] in 1960, making her Aden's first female editor of a women's monthly magazine.[1]
She was born in Aden.
In the 1950s, Nagib edited the women's column of the weekly newspaper al-Nahda. When she founded Fatat Shamsan, it was the first women's journal in the Arabian Peninsula. Her opening editorial emphasised the importance of women's journalism in pressing for women's rights:
She was the managing editor of the woman's magazine Fatat Shansan, [2] which published its first magazine in Aden in January 1960. She has thus been referred to as the first Yemeni woman editor of a women's magazine.
She was a leading figure of feminism in Yemen in the 1960s, and was the Yemeni delegate to several international women's conferences, such as the Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo, Egypt, January 1961.