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Thread: Esther Moyal (1873-1948) was Mizrahi Jewish journalist & feminist, in 1912, Moyal said: "We women & men of the East are deifying Westernizing, giving them the power to patronize us." Moyal, a member of the Lazari family of Beirut, began her public activism in 1893 
...She took over the correspondence of the Lebanese Women's League and was sent to Chicago to represent Lebanon at the International Women's Conference. She was active in various women's organizations such as Bākūrat Sūriya and Nahdat al-Nisā' ("The Awakening Women")...
In 1894 she married a medical student, Simon Moyal, in Jaffa. After he qualified they settled in Cairo, where in 1898 Esther founded the monthly al-ʿĀʾila ("The Family"), which became a weekly in 1904. She also became a frequent contributor to the leading Cairo daily, al-Ahrām...
...and the Egyptian literary periodical al-Hilāl. The Moyals moved to Jaffa in 1908 and the following year she helped establish an organization of Jewish women in the city. In 1913 she became joint editor with her husband of the Jaffa periodical, The Voice of Ottomanism...
Between 1893-1914, Moyal had participated in a several public activities and left palpable imprints on the Arab women’s movement, on Arabic journalism, on literary translation, and in the movement of “Sephardi Zionism”.
In 1912 she gave this speech that was later on published in the Arabic newspaper “Al-Hasna” called “Our Resistance” about the Jewish residence to the West:
Esther Moyal was a Mizrahi Jewish feminist and a Zionist.
