Lotfia el nadi biography

In this fascinating documentary, director Wageh George recounts the life of Lotfia El-Nadi, born in 1907 and living in Switzerland at the time this film was made. At the age of 26, El-Nadi traded in her veil for a pair of pilots' goggles and became the first Egyptian woman to fly a plane.

Through this portrait of one remarkable individual, the filmmaker shows how Egyptian women fought for years to obtain equal rights in a patriarchal culture and nation—rights still seriously threatened today.

Sadly, Lotfia El-Nadi passed away at the age of 95 six years after Take Off From the Sand was completed.

This film is available with a Digital Site License (DSL), which allows colleges, universities, or libraries to encode, locally host, and stream the film to their community on a closed, password-protected system.

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Lotfia Elnadi (Arabic: لطفية النادي; October 29, 1907 – 2002) was an Egyptianaviator. She was the first Egyptian woman as well as the first woman from the Arab world and Africa to earn a pilot's license.

Early life

Lotfia Elnadi was born on 29 October 1907 into an upper-class family in Cairo.^[1][2] After completion of her primary education, it was expected that she would marry, becoming a housewife and mother. Her father, who worked for the government printing office, Matbaa Amiriya, saw no reason for Elnadi to pursue secondary education. Her mother encouraged her to attend the American College with its modern curriculum and focus as a language school.^[3]

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