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Sindhi poet, writer, feminist and activist (born 1958)

Attiya Dawood (Urdu: عطیہ داؤد born April 1, 1958^[1]) is a Sindhi poet, writer, feminist and activist. She was born in Moledino Larik (a small village in Naushero Feroze, Sindh, Pakistan)^[2][3] She has been hailed as one of the most important feminist Sindhi writers of her time.^[2] Attiya uses her poetry to highlight the oppression of women in Sindhi society in the name of tradition.

She has been writing poetry since 1980.^[3]

Personal life

Early life

Attiya Dawood was born in Moledino Larik; a village in Naushero Feroze.

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Attiya was born to her father; Muhammad Dawood's third wife Arbab Khatoon. Attiya's father, Muhammad Dawood Larik was a Hafiz and a poet who ran away from home to become a school teacher. He died at the age of 60 in 1965 when Attiya was 6 years old. During the 1970s, Attiya's family moved to Karachi where she took admission in a college Attiya Dawood | Who is who in Pakistan SYH