THE CHANGING EAST.
A news item from an overseas paper, which shows another sphere in which Eastern women have advanced, is that concerning Leila Mamed-Bekova, celebrated in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaidjan as the first woman flyer of that region. Less than five years ago she was living in a harem. At the age of 17 Leila, who had been sold four years previously and had become the mother of two children, threw off the veil and mado a bid for freedom. She became head of a women's club near her native village of Baku, and in the summer of 1930 became a pupil of an aviation school recently formed there. The life story of Leila—who not only flies an aeroplane, but teaches aviation—is now appearing in the Russian newspapers as an example of the changing East and transition of women from medieval tyranny to freedom.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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146THE CHANGING EAST. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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