Aflāṭūn, Inzhī

LC control no.	nr 91039598
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Aflāṭūn, Inzhī *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Aflatoun, Inji Aflāṭūn, Inchī Aflāṭūn, Injī Aflāṭūn, Inǧī Aflāṭūnī, Inzhī Efflatoun, Inji Iflāṭūn, Inzhī Iflāṭūn, Injī Efflatoun, Ingi أفلاطون، إنجي افلاطون، إنچي إفلاطون، إنجي افلاطون، انجي
Associated country	Egypt
Birth date	1924-04-16
Death date	1989-04-17
Place of birth	Cairo (Egypt)
Place of death	Cairo (Egypt)
Affiliation	Society of Art and Freedom (Egypt) Iskra (Communist youth party : Egypt) Ḥizb al-Shuyūʻī al-Miṣrī (1921- ) Jāmiʻat Fuʼād al-Awwal Lycée français du Caire Collège du Sacré-Coeur (Cairo, Egypt)
Profession or occupation	Artists Painters Political activists Feminists
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Her Naḥnu-- al-nisāʼ al-Miṣrīyāt! 194-?: t.p. (Inzhī Aflāṭūn) p. 3 (Injī Aflāṭūn) Mudhakkirāt Inzhī Aflāṭūn, 1993: p. 11, etc. (al-Fannānah Inzhī Aflāṭūnī; b. 4-16-24; d. 4-17-89) Müller-Berghaus, N. "Die Kommunistin mit den 40 Kleidern", c2001: t.p. (Inǧī Aflāṭūn; b. 1924, d. 1989) The New York Times, Overlooked no more: Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian artist of the people, May 3, 2021, viewed online May 3, 2021 (Inji Efflatoun, the younger of two daughters of Hassan Efflatoun, who established a department of entomology at University of Cairo, and Salha, who divorced her husband at age 19, studied fashion in Paris and opened boutique, Maison Salha; enrolled at College du Sacré-Coeur, then Lycée Français du Caire; studied with Kamel El Telmissany, artist and filmmaker who started the leftist Surrealist Art and Liberty Group, and introduced her to Surrealism and Cubism; in 1942 Efflatoun joined Iskra, a Marxist youth group, and participated in Art and Liberty's annual exhibition at the Continental Hotel in Cairo; painted farm workers and daily life in Nubia and the Nile Delta; delegate to the First Women's International Democratic Federation in Paris in 1945; wrote political pamphlets addressing issues of class, gender and imperialist oppression; married lawyer Mohammed Abdul Elija in 1948 (died 1956); Nasser's crackdown on communists in 1959 led to her imprisonment, where she painted fellow prisoners; freed from prison in 1963) Wikipedia, May 3, 2021 (Inji Aflatoun; born in Cairo; Egyptian painter and activist in the women's movement; pioneer of modern Egyptian art; graduated from Fuad I University in Cairo; founding member of the First Congress of the First Peace Council of Egypt, 1949; joined Harakat ansar al salam (Movement of the Friends of Peace), 1950; studied for a year with Egyptian-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon in the 1950s; in 1956 she became friends with and was later influenced by Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros; painted portraits, then landscapes, while in prison; after release from prison in 1963 she devoted most of her time to painting; exhibited internationally) ʻUthmān, Majdī. Injī Iflāṭūn bayna al-thawrīyah wa-al-dhātīyah lil-fannān, 2021: title page (إنجي إفلاطون = Injī Iflaṭūn) two pages after page 102 (Ingi Efflatoun [in rom.])
Associated language	ara